Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.4 performance on KDE 3.1

[Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 21:27, Paul Hands wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Should I submit the following as a bug?
>
> I'm running evolution 1.4.4 (and also the latest snaps - no
> difference) on KDE 3.1 (various versions - 3.1.1, 3.1.3) on SuSE 8.2. 
> System is a 2Ghz IBM T30 laptop with 2G RAM, Radeon mobility graphics
> adaptor, XFree86-4.3.0-15.
>
> The graphics performance is awful.  
>
> Anything which causes a window redraw (without changing window sizes)
> takes around 8 seconds to complete.  That includes changing folders -
> something which happens a lot.  The redraw of the summary and preview
> panes takes the most time - the folder bar needs about 3 seconds to
> look complete.  
>
> If I resize the window (main or composer)  the redraw can take up to
> 30 seconds.  During that time, the mouse cursor is grabbed, and is
> restricted to a screen area which seems to be the old size of the
> window.
>
> If I switch into a gnome session (gnome 2.2 as supplied with the SuSE
> distro) instead of KDE, graphics performance is fine.
>
> I don't want to start a gnome versus KDE thread here - it serves no
> purpose.  However, I bet a lot of evolution users are on KDE as well,
> and therefore I'd like to know..............
>
> 1. Is it just me, or are other KDE users seeing this.  If so, what
> distro etc?
> 2. Is it restricted to Evolution, or are other gnome apps affected in
> the same way?  
>
> and of course,
>
> 3. Is it worth submitting a bug?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul

AMD 1.2ghz, 768mb RAM, 80gb 7200rpm EIDE, tweaked MDK 9.1+ system (every
possible update), HD tweaked with customer hdparm settings, latest
NVidia driver for the GF with 64mb RAM, running XFCE4 - still
lagging...although other applications fly like the dickens...

stephen kuhn - owner
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