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Well, those of us who use KDE know that it is not suitable for any machine. While they have made tremendous strides in substantially reducing memory and CPU consumption, KDE is still the "heaviest" desktop environment. However, it could also be said, without fear of being wrong, that KDE is also the most complete. Precisely for this reason many of us cannot live without it.
Fortunately, there are a few "tricks" to "slim down" our KDE and make it run faster, which will also result in lower power consumption. 🙂 |
Disable Semantic Desktop Search (Nepomuk)
Steps: System Preferences> Desktop Search> Uncheck the option "Enable Nepomuk Semantic Desktop Search".
Disable desktop effects
Steps: System Preferences> Desktop Effects> Uncheck the "Enable Desktop Effects" option
Disable Oxygen animations
Steps: I opened a terminal and wrote oxygen-settings. A window will open from which you will be able to configure all the Oxygen effects. Ideally, go to the Animations tab and uncheck the option that says "enable animations."
Disable Akonadi
I opened a terminal and wrote:
kate ~ / .config / akonadi / akonadiserverrc
find the line that says set startserver = true and replace it with set startserver = false
Then, always from the terminal, I wrote:
kate ~ / .config / akonadi / agentsrc
replace all instances of akonadi with #akonadi.
I could not install mint 10 64bit kde 4.6; I have downloaded the iso several times and it always hangs on "install". Will any of you have an option to install it? I already tried it in live and now that I want to install I can't do it; Thank you …..
So is. KDE has improved a lot. I think it could still improve performance a little bit more, but it is by far the best desktop environment… at least for now. We'll see what happens with GNOME 3.
These are very useful tips (it is best to disable the effects and Nepomuk).
I am rediscovering KDE (with Linux Mint) after 2 years of not using it ... it is wonderful and as you say completely complete: while with gnome or xfce I have to install add-ons that make my life happier with KDE I already have them by default . I also have several applications that are essential to me: Kmymoney, Okular and K3B, much more complete than their equivalents in gnome (because although they can be installed in gnome -sometimes- some dependencies have to be completed).
KDE is great, and it's taking a place in my Linux heart.
Thanks friend, it helped me a lot to make my Kubuntu 13.10 faster.