[Cialug] New desktop ?

[David Champion]

I'm not trying to say that people didn't have problems with KDE4... just 
curious what version (4.0 or 4.1) and if maybe RedHat just had something 
poorly configured... which wouldn't be surprising from a company that 
publicly says that the Linux desktop is dead.

I think KDE4 got a bad rep when the 4.0 version was released with some 
distros (when the KDE developers said it wasn't ready for production 
use), now there's a perception issue (like the old BS that you couldn't 
run PHP with Apache 2.0 because it wasn't thread safe).

If KDE4 were crashy, I'd drop it like a hot rock. I can't stand having 
my desktop crash.

Mandriva 2009 and KDE4.1 are perfectly stable and usable for me. I've 
tried Kubuntu and it seems to be fine as well.

-dc

Nathan Stien wrote:
> FWIW, I have had many of the same issues with KDE4 that Jeff Chapin 
> had.  And then some.  I have been a longtime KDE fanboy, and it's been 
> sad to see it turn into this crashy, glitchy mockery of its former 
> glory.  I tried workarounds for many of the issues, but eventually I 
> decided I have more important problems to solve.
>
> In my search for alternatives, I switched to XFCE (on my ubuntu 
> intrepid laptop at least) and hacked up a wrapper around wmctrl to 
> regain precise keyboard-based control of my windows' positions, sizes, 
> workspaces, etc. like I used to have in KDE3.  It's not too bad, and 
> does seem to save me some ram/cpu.  My other boxen still have KDE3 for 
> the time being.
>
> Interestingly, it seemed like KDE4's feature to let you apply qt4 
> themes to gtk apps made my firefox horribly slow and suffer numerous 
> drawing glitches, at least under the themes I was trying.  Switching 
> to XFCE made my firefox noticeably faster and less glitchy.
>
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