I am currently
looking into methods of using the improved KDE4
components to enhance portions of TDE (e.g. Konqueror) while keeping
the same stability and usability we currently have. Stay tuned. :-)
Tim
Tim,
While I agree that some KDE4 apps are better than the TDE version (Dolphin is the first
example of it, mostly because it appeared at the end of the KDE3 era), I fear that TDE
will loose it's memory footprint over current KDE, which is in my opinion, the main
reason to use TDE.
On my Asus EEE with 512mb of RAM (soldered onboard, and I have some swap space)), the
first release of PCLOS 2010, which was the first version of it to run KDE4, the speed was
minable, but still usable. I was able to install the system from the livecd and it worked.
With the current release, I could only install it with the option from the boot menu to
just launch the installer, without the whole desktop. After rebooting, when the
installation is complete, the computer couldn't even boot to the complete desktop
completely. It crashes and it's out of RAM. Even on my main computer, a Core 2 Duo
with 2gb of RAM, for no reasons, KDE4 takes sometimes 5 x more time to load and get to the
desktop. Running the latest version of PCLOS was even the reason I had to buy a newer
computer, because my P4 with 768mb of RAM wasn't fast enough.
With TDE on my Asus EEE, everything works fast and flawlessly. I don't want to use
incomplete or ugly ''lightweight'' desktop, or else I'll simply use
IceWM. If KDE4 parts are to be used in TDE, it will probably seriously loose its advantage
of being faster, at least for me. Firefox is almost the web standard and for using it
sometimes, Konqueror on KDE4 is not much better than the version on TDE. KHTML hasn't
evolved enough for worthing it, and WebKit is slow and not compatible with everything. I
am not a developer, and I have no idea if it is possible to do, but if the avenue of
trying to integrate the Gecko web engine of Mozilla is possible, it would be much better!
Just my opinion.
-Alexandre
