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Feb 2 2009

KDE 4.2 and laptops

I haven’t been looking at the PowerDevil+Plasma related news with enthusiasm before (or, tbh, I haven’t looked at ‘em at all). And now that I need it, the battery applet and all that, I’m just astonished how well it performs. And how many options it has. Kudos for all involved!

then there is kde bluetooth stack. Again awesome, cell-to-laptop-to-main-computer…

KWin on eee

KWin is fast, plasma also, everything is just… awesome!

BTW, this is the first time I don’t use self-compiled KDE4 packages, and it’s not bad at all. Debian’s KDE team made very good packages of 4.2, and even though 4.2 is in experimental repo (I’m using Sid on this eee), it behaves better than kubuntu installations on my familie’s computers.

So three times “hurray” to all mentioned above!

Category: KDE, Comments (10)

10 Comments

  1. First eeeLancelot and now this. Stop teasing me Ivan! >_<

    Glad to hear that performance is good, I was afraid that Plasma + KWin with Composite would be too much for these small netbooks.

    Comment by Hans — 2 February 2009 @ 23:05 Reply to this comment

  2. @Hans: I’m not evil, I just behave that way :)

    In all honesty, this little guy is faster than normal netbooks (it is not Atom based – eeePC 1000HD).

    But nevertheless, as far as the graphics are concerned, it shows Plasma dashboard faster than my main (Phenom X4) computer – intel trumps nvidia :/

    Comment by Ivan Čukić — 2 February 2009 @ 23:13 Reply to this comment

  3. On my eeePC 1000 kde4 works very nice, including PowerDevil, suspend, NetworkManager plasmoid and sending files via bluetooth.

    Comment by Nikita Skovoroda — 3 February 2009 @ 00:51 Reply to this comment

  4. Can I ask what KDE bluetooth system you’re using? The only one I can find in the debian repos seems to be for kde3. I’m on Sidux with KDE4.2 from experimental, also.

    Comment by Jarrad — 3 February 2009 @ 02:35 Reply to this comment

  5. @Jarrad: I’m also curious – konqueror in 4.2 doesn’t handle the bluetooth:/ uris anymore either

    Comment by cleary — 3 February 2009 @ 04:39 Reply to this comment

  6. @Jarrad: It really is from KDE3… hm… I haven’t noticed that.

    @cleary: I’ve never used bluetooth kio so I didn’t check that at all.

    Comment by Ivan Čukić — 3 February 2009 @ 08:03 Reply to this comment

  7. I think I have seen somewhere that kde4 buetooth is in the works… maybe on the openSUSE blog. It is on my “KDE3 components still on my system” list.

    Comment by maninalift — 3 February 2009 @ 12:39 Reply to this comment

  8. Congratulations for your netbook running debian and kde 4.2! By the way, is it a eee1000 or 1000HD?

    []s

    Comment by Saulo — 3 February 2009 @ 20:49 Reply to this comment

  9. @Saulo: 1000HD (the one with fully working Wifi :) )

    Comment by Ivan Čukić — 3 February 2009 @ 20:51 Reply to this comment

  10. Sorry for my english,

    I don’t know the true kde performance because of my nvidia card :(

    I use the precompiled packages for kubuntu, could you score the compiled/precompiled packages ratio please?

    Comment by Peyesein — 4 February 2009 @ 19:16 Reply to this comment

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