Some good, some bad [LWN.net]

Some good, some bad

Posted Jun 25, 2012 10:44 UTC (Mon) by viiru (subscriber, #53129)
In reply to: Some good, some bad by nye
Parent article: KDE Announces 4.9 Beta1 and Testing Initiative

> I don't know about anyone else, but - prosaic though it may be - kwin
> updates are the most exciting thing for me with with successive KDE
> releases; each release seems to have new features, enhancements to
> existing features, or performance improvements, and often all of the
> above - and without any regressions that I can recall.

I have to disagree heavily here. The endless kwin regressions are why I dread upgrading it, and the latest round (random runtime crashes when effects are enabled instead of just a crash on every startup) are the reason why I finally decided to migrate to Xfce instead.

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Some good, some bad

Posted Jun 25, 2012 12:46 UTC (Mon) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Well, this is your personal experience, which is unfortunately bad, but not at all common or the norm. KWin really is pretty fast and extremely stable these days.

There must be something peculiarly interesting about your system... I'm sure Martin is interested in the issue. One thing to try is check whether you get these crashes also when running with or without effects from a KDE live cd -- Kubuntu or OpenSUSE are good choices for test run.