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Re: KDE4
by sebas on Sunday 06/Jan/2008, @07:16

The desktop is themable, but you'll need also more than one theme to be able to change it.

And sure, Plasma at this point is less customisable than KDE 3.5's kdesktop. It's completely new and will gain more features over time.

As to the speed of resizing applets, that's not a big deal right now, as it's fast enough -- it doesn't need to be completely smooth to make the desktop workable, it just has to work. You don't resize applets all the time.

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Re: KDE4
by T. J. Brumfield on Sunday 06/Jan/2008, @16:13

I'm excited that Plasma will make it easier in the future to customize the desktop even further. However, because it less customizable today, I'm sticking with 3.5 today, and I imagine many will. That isn't a knock on the development of KDE 4, just a reflection of the current state.

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Re: KDE4
by Aaron J. Seigo on Sunday 06/Jan/2008, @16:53

yeah, i fully expect some people will do this. you can, of course, still run other kde4 apps in your 3.5 so you don't have to give up everything. kde is more than a desktop environment and things are welded together, after all =)

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Re: KDE4
by Richlv on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @06:02

this is probably a trivial question, but :
i expect running kde4 apps on a kde3 desktop to increase memory usage, right (for kde4 libs not present before) ?

if so, what would be an approximate estimate, how much additional ram would require first launched kde4 application on a kde3 desktop compared to kde4 desktop ?

(note that i explicitly noted first app ;) )

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Re: KDE4
by jos poortvliet on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @02:32

well, I can't give a precise approximation, but it won't be very much. I'd say 20 mb, 30 mb... something like that. Maybe even less.

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Re: KDE4
by whatever noticed on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @03:24

I'm using kde4 applications with kde 3.5 on a 1.5 ghz 256 mb ram laptop and don't notice any slow down of my computer experience because of that.

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