New KDE 4.2 beta Experience!
November 27, 2008
KDE 4 with it’s new smooth, sleek, curvy design and stunning desktop applets make for an unforgettable user experience.
Compiz is automatically inserted into KDE 4.2 by default, letting you play with some of the sweet desktop effects.
Yesterday’s announcement says that …
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KDE4.1 on Gentoo—Not Yet. My Nvidia card disagrees…
October 14, 2008
I ran KDE4.1 for a few days on Gentoo. It runs really slow. The same problems people have been comlaning about for a year during the beta releases. Everyone says it’s because Nvidia needs to catch up. It’s been like that for a while already. So I’m just going to wait it out.
I found KDE4.1’s version of Konsole SUPER slow. I also find that desktop widgets are really slow…
Kate seems fine, and most of the other KDE4 programs are running OK.
Since it runs so horribly and it’s pretty much unusable at the moment, I decided to use Xfce4 until they bring their act together. Last night I got Compiz Fusion to run on Xfce4 and Emerald as the theme manager–runs like a dream. Xfce4 is everything I need right now. It runs fast, it runs really good with effects, it’s extremely compact(don’t even know it’s there half the time) and it just does the job.
The program that isn’t quit ready and pretty much sucks for far is Konsole. I uninstalled it and use the KDE3.5 version. Works great in Xfce4.
