Hi Barburo,Barburo wrote:TazOC,
I forgot to thank you for the log-out script on wbar for KDE3.
Now changing the window manager, or exiting is much faster.
I've found that the puppy implementation of KDE3 has been pretty solid as a window manager. I like KDE3 over KDE4 (it's faster and seems to use less resources) and I'm glad you're continuing support in your next version.
I've also found LXDE to be efficient and it supports C-F too, but doesn't have the menu flexibility that KDE has.
Don't work too hard on that next release - we all need some downtime!
B.
You're welcome, I use the Logout button on Wbar often, and I took some time off yesterday. I used to favor KDE3 but I would like to phase it out in favor of Xfce 4, which I've been tweaking for the next release of Mariner ISO. I think it is faster than KDE3, has nearly every setting you can think of, including C-F-like compositing with shadows and translucency built in (Menu | Setup | Xfce Settings | Window Manager Tweaks | Compositor). Today I updated the Xfce4 Settings Manager and the Weather Update Panel Plugin from Lucid packages, (see attached screen shot.) With the KDE 4 add-on you'll still be able to run KDE apps from other desktops.
I also updated Lighthouse to Xorg-xserver 1.7.7 and Mesa 7.8.1 with OpenGL 2.1 support and DRI (direct rendering interface) hardware acceleration from Slackware 13.1 Beta 1 repos. Xserver 1.7.7 was released on May 4th and it's looking very good here. So far the 3D performance with my setup is right on par with the ATI proprietary drivers in prior releases and hopefully will work as well with nVidia, Intel and other display cards.
Take care,
TazOC