Asus EeePC and KDE4 RC2

[RedSpaceRanger]

What distro is this? Xandros?

[Kourtakias]

actually kde would be too chunky for that small screen!

[cusbrar1]

how so? you can resize the panel and window borders....

[Kourtakias]

watching it again, I kind of begin to like the whole thing, but the screen still is small XD - I guess Gnome is better for that

[supniggas453]

lol @ butthurt Vista fags

[GreatmetaI]

Too bad I loathe KDE4. I would rather use fluxbox, openbox, or pekwm on the eee :).

[homemadejam2006]

now that looks cool mate! Was it hard to do? Hmm.. might have to have a look to see if i can put it on mine

jam :)

[anemptygun]

is it just me or is the framerate choppy?

[mcpreist]

Do you need any other drivers for the EEE after the install? What distro is it running?

[celderian]

kubuntu

[jerek]

look like a Leopard.... ;-)

[xXfalafelXx]

KDE4 seems pretty neat on an eeepc :)

[iggy4323]

I'm sick of all these yo videos that just show unnecessary visual features. Not as bad as Ubuntu though.

[wallyllaw]

I have to disagree with you. Considering that Asus Eee PC has a really tiny and low resolution display (7", 800x480 if I remember correctly), those effects are all but unnecessary for usability.

For really big displays and users that use multiple virtual desktops, those effects doesn't help that much.

[iggy4323]

I reckon the transparency is really dumb. I can see use for the display of multiple desktops, but my room mate is running solaris on a low res laptop... and he has no trouble as a user with the simple workspace switcher (which I think is easier than viewing all four desktops at once).

Alt+tab displays a full black outline of each window over the top of everything, rather than transparency.

So the same usability can be achieved with simplicity.

[wallyllaw]

Low res laptop isn't same as ultra low res laptop or what? 800x480 is somethin really low. It's about 5 times less than I have on my desktop.

Yeah, transparency is usually not useful (except in menus), but seeing all your windows same time really is.

[starpause]

it's tempting to nay-say all pretty graphics and effects as mere eye candy but if they are done correctly such animations can make switching between tasks more organic.

we are visual creatures and expose style task switching gives your brain a better idea of space and how things are located in it. i'm glad the KDE team has picked up on that.

[waltercool]

Still with your winXP troll xD

Visuals are alternative, but are nice.

And KDE Four uses lower resources than kde 3.5

Well, im going to work with my KDE, you can still with your XP and BSOD :)

[debiani3866]

your laptop looks kinda old in this vid. what year is it?

[lorelie099]

dude this is not old.. its the asus Eeepc.. search for it in google for more info..

[BetoWater]

hahahahaha! I want this 'old laptop'! hahahahhahahauahuahua... >D

[waltercool]

Very old, for some people is for last year xD

But for strange things, i have bought one one month ago ;)

[debiani3866]

idk the lighting in this vid made it look old on my screen

[debiani3866]

lolol for an old laptop, it handles kde 4 really well lololol

[Squichie]

it aint old, shees... but for a slim line laptop, it does run it bery well, agreed

[LordZope]

Was 'bery well' another Beryl pun.

Or is miss type.

[Squichie]

miss type, but good catch on the pun. I would not have dared used it though considering compiz fusion has really come on to its own

[LordZope]

Yea I thought so.

it's funny anyway.

[Squichie]

oh man, have you seen the newest compiz. It puts us leagues ahead of mac

woot woot

[LordZope]

I don't know I've got Ubuntu 7.10 at the moment (haven't had time to upgrade busy with GCSEs).

Would that use the latest version or not.

[Squichie]

nah, They upgraded it. In the current developement, to which I havnt installed, they have sphere mode, as well as some other things too

[LordZope]

WOW I'll check it out.

[abnormality567]

How did you do it?

[ZarathustraDK]

Wow, is that compiz-fusion you're running on it?

Really showcases the difference some proper coding can have on the memory usage. I'd like to see Vista do the same :-)

[asoapdish]

That's actually kwin. KWin now has compositing.

[aryonoco]

KDE4's Kwin now has compositing, no need for Compiz anymore.

And apparently KDE4 is still under development and not much memory optimisation has been done on it, makes you wonder what KDE4.1 is going to be...

I'm switching back to Linux when KDE4 comes out, I really miss KMail, and one year of Vista has been enough windows for the rest of my life..

[ZarathustraDK]

I read somewhere that KDE4 Rc2s memory footprint was 30-40% less than KDE3's. That's pretty awesome.

[Lam1ngton]

"one year of Vista has been enough windows for the rest of my life"

o_0

You used Vista for the whole year ?

Glutton for punishment... ;)

[MaizChan]

jesperht,

Good to see people start hacking on this little beast.

Can you post the specs of this machine, is it original, more ram added etc ?

[jesperht]

No upgrades - just the standard 4G model. :)

[JRepin]

Way cool. Great to see that KDE 4 is working so nicely on not so powerful hardware.

[weightedcube]

Res is a little low

[myth00s]

KDE4 is still under development.

[ornsson]

The comment about Res has no bearing on KDE at all. It's based on the resolution the laptop screen is capable of. If you've seen any other KDE 4.0 screencaps from normal computers you'll see KDE 4.0 renders quite nicely at normal resolutions.