How Slow is KDE?

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 23 January 2006 1:54 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Dallam Wych wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:06:41AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > All joking aside, yes KDE is bloated, and so is Gnome and so is XFCE4,
> > > but it floats the boat of a lot of users, and it's quite useful for a
> > > lot of folks who couldn't hack my less bloated icewm setup.
> > >
> > > IMO, Gnome is a piece of animal droppings moving uphill not
> > > horizontally.
> >
> > While I will readily admit Gnome could benefit by someone giving it
> > a clue, Kde looks like it was written by a group of fifth graders
> > using crayons :)
>

Hmm, someone must've configured your KDE with the Kids Icon theme...
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9144

> Well, they were trying to emulate the WinXP default UI  ;)

Hmmm... you'd think folks who fancy themselves as "in the know" would've heard 
of kde-look.org, http://www.kde-look.org

The themes available for KDE 3.2+ are extensive:
http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=14

Pick one you like... Although the default install from the kde-redhat.sf.net 
project for FC4 is rather extensive. I happen to use the Plastik theme and 
style, with the Glow window decoration and a transparent kicker on the right 
side of the desktop and Crystal SVG icon set (yeah, I hate unused RAM and CPU 
cycles). Enable and disable features as you like, manually in the Control 
Center, or using the Desktop Settings Wizard. Hell, you can even edit text 
files manually with vi if you want...

You minimalists might like the KDE-Classic theme and style, with monochrome 
icons. Be sure to turn off all that nasty eye-candy ;)

Tim

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