-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. It does. The netbook (with accel) does them fine. The 2.0GHz Core2Duo has noticeable lag with translucency (Normal animation speed, fine with instant). The 3.0GHz Core2Duo machine was able to do it well enough that there's not much difference. > 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 Definitely improves XRender as well. > Anne - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJK6FsyAAoJEKaxavVX4C1XzSAQAPdCTWeCXrrMSrhZwX6YaYJ5 Q7FR+CPNkHiQhGJkrgcH5VCTyszD6lJz6OmkaMXipz9MmJJ2+hhHarudjRVwy6g6 X/wIwakOu/YXNvtSH6kb5UN0cVIbPiQTaQ6OJZu/p3jCJ3dnecRFjQzXgRm0LoWO QpDDd9u0x8MpUz4cVKcVqwqt0piWxKt7Jl/b8OMKEF+sQG/fLteyPao39b7+sFa1 ojT1mNU6dyM8oA/SuyXKirdiqd8doclgWJuO1BV7H2LTwm6sQulIkcU+rwuO3gsk c8JSk9CUNDe7feszEZpX13aYfNuPOSRrqcwkyCT6KB6NzdIPuOnj8Y9ZLDCynymT w7TLLKPDRuHvN7EEQVTQlTOC3tFv9TPyQxH7ehfFMx1rmBNq88AdRRhiMO+9KJ4P YOxhf/RYZq5XkA02h4wloAxVcsrT72fo7vRqG6V/iS0XjaXBBEmk7VVWk+XVR6Py TLDIu1ideE80QWKovKrGWWYFpiVr0XK41pzYJK3kKn92dj9nKhjHd+Nn7HHWR2x3 3qSPPocbOrFiZr/GEu/vldIyaE14psLWhgT8YiZIOKMhCn/KbVOGic1qWrVS2Hgx 9JURAqn/GGqFReXhiJiSHd7AY2xx2RltMDFkY52pimvT/Yqnq68n9MdQQ/2cWLue rgV4q4p3ZemAMPCmHmpH =48jR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
