How Slow is KDE?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Rick Sivernell wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't blame her a bit!

     -- Alma