From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964825AbXCSUnq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:43:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964824AbXCSUnq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:43:46 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:44086 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964825AbXCSUno (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:43:44 -0400 Message-ID: <45FEF6D1.7020309@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:47:13 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kasper Sandberg CC: Mike Galbraith , Radoslaw Szkodzinski , Al Boldi , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org, Linus Torvalds , Nicholas Miell Subject: Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31 References: <200703042335.26785.a1426z@gawab.com> <200703172048.46267.kernel@kolivas.org> <1174125534.7734.2.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <200703172355.30989.a1426z@gawab.com> <1174198651.8199.44.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <1174200463.10498.23.camel@localhost> <1174201726.8732.6.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <1174203482.8855.8.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <1174211853.10498.25.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1174211853.10498.25.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kasper Sandberg wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: >> >>> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe >>> (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. >>> That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should at >>> least be ran in an another thread. >> Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... >> X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. >> ...that I've been getting. >> > not really, only X sucks. KDE works atleast as good with rsdl as > vanilla. i dont know how originally said kde works worse, wasnt it just > someone that thought? > It was probably me, and I had the opinion that KDE is not as smooth as GNOME with RSDL. I haven't had time to measure, but using for daily stuff for about an hour each way hasn't changed my opinion. Every once in a while KDE will KLUNK to a halt for 200-300ms doing mundane stuff like redrawing a page, scrolling, etc. I don't see it with GNOME. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot