Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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The three things that bother me the most about KDE at the moment are.
-Preformance. Kde 3.1 is noticeably slower than gnome2.4 on a k6-2 450Mhz.
If 3.2's faster then good and it's about time.
-Memory it eats the main mem (256) just loading and starts on the swap file as soon as I run an app. Gnome 2.4 usually leaves me with 30-40MB once loaded.
Hopefully 3.2 being faster uses less Memory
- Arts. It's slow resource hungry and a pain in the neck. Why does arts require 12% to play an MP3 when XMMS is already using 10%. In Gnome with esd esd uses 1% Xmms 11% on average. Taking twice the CPU time to do the same thing is Stupid! Also when apps like mplayer aren't set to use esd they still work alright in gnome just overridding esd. In KDE when not set to use Arts they either don't play sound or Arts grabs the sound and stuffs it up!
Combine those problems with all the Apps I use the most being Gtk based or similar to gtk. MozillaFirebird, OO.org, xmms etc...
I see no reason to use KDE. Hopefully 3.2 will fix many of these problems if so I'll be interested but other wise I'm sticking to gnome!