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Re: KDE4
by Jeff Strehlow on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @21:04

"it's The Way for the future (non-composited displays just won't be around in years to come, i'm sure of it; there are too many advantages) so we shouldn't deviate"

But doesn't composting slow things down and take up a lot of memory? To me those are huge disadvantages. I sure hope it will be possible to turn it off or better yet put it in a separate package that can be uninstalled if we don't want it; that way there wont be code sitting in memory that isn't used for anything. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that don't have the latest computers (like my wife) and won't use KDE4 if it makes their computer run much slower.

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Re: KDE4
by Paul Eggleton on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @22:52

Of course you can turn it off.

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Re: KDE4
by jos poortvliet on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @02:37

well, compositing does those things now, but theoretically, it should actually speed up things. "Just" needs a proper X.org and driver architecture, which we simply don't have right now...

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Re: KDE4
by reihal on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @03:30

And we never will, unless KDE and/or Trolltech takes over it.
The division of Linux, X and KDE is the way that MS can "conquer by division".

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