Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.4 performance on KDE 3.1

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

sounds like your system is incorrectly configured. This is certainly
*not* an evolution bug if it is only reproducable on SuSE 8.2 (which
seems to be the case based on other responses in this thread).

Make sure that hardware acceleration is working properly

Jeff

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:27, 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
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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