Is KDE 4 Stable? (was Re:Linus on Gnome 3.2)

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Dec 4 20:56:35 UTC 2011


On 12/04/2011 02:51 PM, Ted wrote:
> As a original Kde user, then on gnome for last 3-4 years, wanting to go
> back to kde,
> i find one question with your report below,
> i was under the understanding, and this has been how i operated in the
> past,
> that as long as the libraries are installed, you can run any kde app,
> i.e. i run kb3 (or whatever burn program is called), on gnome desktop,
> and when i was using kde, i was running apps from gnome project on kde.
> I am confused that when you talk about the different desktops, that you
> can't effectively run apps from the other desktops collection of apps.???
[snip]

That is normally the case, correct. However, I, and many others, noticed 
that GTK applications would run intolerably slow with the version of KDE 
that shipped with Fedora 16 on the day that F16 went live. For instance, 
if I typed in Thunderbird or XChat, the characters would appear some 
seconds after-the-fact and mouse was very unresponsive, as if the 
machine had a high load average, which wasn't the case at all. If I 
typed in a KDE app, there was no problem. I thought it might have had 
something to do with the nouveau driver so I installed the proprietary 
binary driver but that made no difference.  The problem was resolved 
with updates to KDE, the kernel, and the nVidia driver. I don't know 
what specifically fixed the problem but GTK apps have been fine since 
then. It was a transient and unusual problem.
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