Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.4 performance on KDE 3.1

[Fred Blaise <Fred Blaise CenturyTel com>]

Running 1.4.4 on RH 9.0 with exchange connector.
Everything is fine.

--fb
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 06:27, 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