How Slow is KDE?

[Rick Sivernell]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:44:45 -0500
Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:

> 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
> 

Tim

  My wife might like that kiddie stuff, but it is too complicated for her.  Hell, she
fought winders when she had to leave DOS 5.

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