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Re: Kwin effect
by Jeff Strehlow on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @15:06

I don't know how the animations are implemented but one thing for sure KDE4 does take a lot more memory than KDE3. I'd rather see the developers working on finishing KDE4 and making it work right and reducing the footprint than working on unimportant things.

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Re: Kwin effect
by Anon on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @22:35

Most of the extra memory usage comes from Qt4's double-buffering of widgets, which virtually eliminates flickering. It's a design choice, so if you disagree with it, take it up with TT - it's largely out of KDE's hands.

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Re: Kwin effect
by T. J. Brumfield on Sunday 03/Feb/2008, @10:46

And correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the next QT release (4.4?) fix this?

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Re: Kwin effect
by Anon on Sunday 03/Feb/2008, @11:37

I don't know, to be honest: I'd *imagine* "Alien" would reduce the need for double-buffering when resizing and such, but I'm not sure if it would be so effective that TT would turn double-buffering off. My guess is "no" :/

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