On Wednesday 28 October 2009 10:14:16 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I know those concerns, only too well :-) This laptop is 4.5 years old, > > and wasn't state-of-the-art when I bought it. It has ATi Mobility Radeon > > X600 graphics , so it's little short of amazing that I can use desktop > > effects at all, but I carefully use only the minimum of effects, and > > temporarily disable them if watching video, for instance. > > That thing is more than enough for desktop effects. Even the most basic > Radeon 7000 should be sufficient. > I'm not up on graphics cards specs - it's never been a priority until now :-) Really, the only things I particularly like are translucency and the dimming of inactive windows (which stops me from closing the wrong window by accident, as I've done too often in KDE4). I could be wrong, but I think the translucency takes a fair bit of oomph, so I keep effects down to the ones I need. The thing that made the most difference, indeed changed desktop effects from almost unusable into working quite well, was setting the fading duration right down, as documented in http://userbase.kde.org/GPU- Performance#Some_things_that_may_speed_up_any_card.27s_performance Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091028/d20e235f/attachment.bin
