Lamar Owen wrote:
KDE 3.5 is slower, unfortunately, so you don't want to do this on an old machine; the machine needs to be recent and needs to have more than 256MB
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Provided ample RAM, I've personally found kde 3.5 to be subjectively faster (partly due to pkg optimization tweaking).
Kmail for one definitely feels slower, and the startup time IS longer.
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it felt slower. Started Kontact/kmail, and it too felt slower, although
OK, I'll give you that kmail is slower. However, I still have to say that KDE(3.5), in general, is (should be) faster.
-- Rex