Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Aug 2009 00:12 UTC, submitted by rexstuff
The KDE team has released KDE 4.3. This release comes packed with improvements and bug fixes - in fact, over the last six months, 10000 bugs were squashed, 2000 feature requests handled, and 63000 changes were checked in by 700 people. We've already talked about this new release in quite some detail last week, but let's take a look at the most important new features anyway.
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Member since:2007-02-17
"Excuse me? KDE4 doesn't have poor rendering performance. KDE4 just calls the graphics layers to render stuff.
Excuse me? I'll take that to mean that my original summation was spot on and that you do not have anything to counter it. " Excuse me?
In order to create "desktop effects" animations, KDE4 renders and re-renders the same windows, menus and other desktop artefacts perhaps hundreds of times (slightly differently each time). This is what is meant when it is said that "KDE4 exposes the graphics layers". It is not KDE that is slow, it is just KDE that is generating a high demand on graphics performance. Other desktops typically render the artefact just once.
If the effects bother you, just turn them off.
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2005-07-24
Excuse me? I'll take that to mean that my original summation was spot on and that you do not have anything to counter it.
Edited 2009-08-05 04:26 UTC