The KDE project announces the availability of the third development snapshot of the upcoming KDE 4. This snapshot is meant as a reference for developers who want to play with parts of the new technology KDE 4 will provide, those who want to start porting their applications to the new KDE 4 platform and for those that want to start to develop applications based on KDE 4. This snapshot is not for end users, there is no guarantee that it will be stable, the interfaces are subject to changes at any time.
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Member since:2005-10-13
First of all, what does that have to do with this article?
Second, unless I'm reading it wrong those benchmarks actually show Kubuntu as being the slowest, not the fastest.
Third, those benchmarks were incredibly stupid and mean nothing.
And fourth, I actually thought the common "unsubstantiated prejudice" was that KDE was faster than GNOME, not the other way around. Everyone knows how slow GTK is, don't they? Maybe I'm wrong about that one, though.
Member since:2006-01-02
Benchmarks or no, in all my experience with Linux across many different machines of varying performance, Qt is ALWAYS snappier than GTK+. KDE may take longer to load, but once it has, it's not slow to use. Even on my ATI x300, there is still some slowness and non-snappiness with GTK+ based applications. But Qt applications are very responsive and redraw much faster than GTK+ ones (although I do use 2d compositing built-in to KDE, so redraw is no longer an issue, really).
Member since:2005-07-07
Wow, those are the most silly benchmarks I've ever seen. Really... Whoever this guy is (didn't bother to find out) he's actually testing the kernel, and the differences you see are just by accident (assuming the kernel was the same, which is very likely...).
How do you test a GUI by compiling lame?!?!? WTF? You could test the startup time of the desktop, or the startup time of applications, or the responsiveness by trying to figure out how fast they redraw (tough one, btw, would be cool to see) but running a commandline tool (when the gui happens to be running)???
Member since:2005-08-18
"http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=650&num=2
...and KDE 4 is based on Qt 4.x which is significantly faster than Qt 3.x. "
Perhaps, but there's no way in hell you'll come to that conclusion from that "benchmark" since:
a, the benchmark is between xubuntu, kubuntu, and ubuntu
b, it does not benchmark user interfaces components
Member since:
2006-10-27
Maybe these benchmarks will refute the unsubstantiated prejudice that KDE (Qt based) systems are slower than Xfce or GNOME (both DEs are GTK based) based systems.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=650&num=2
...and KDE 4 is based on Qt 4.x which is significantly faster than Qt 3.x.
Well, I am talking about the GTK/Qt based systems as whole not the (mostly) subjective felt performance difference between a GTK and Qt based DE. In fact the benchmarks measure first of all just the DE independent performance of the entire system.
Edited 2007-02-24 03:33