As promised, an update:
For the first time in months, I was able to get through a full week
without a single crash. Unfortunately, the week was instead plagued
with slower response times (whereas GNOME's response to things like
swapping windows would take <1ms, KDE would sometimes take as long as
~3s to redraw, focus, and control). It's also overloaded, by default,
with so much "eye candy" that bogs the system down. Trimming out what I
consider useless - as a developer who spends time in a formula CLI > GUI
- improved the experience a bit, but it still has some work needed to
get it where I want it. This week was minimal in that regard, as I
wanted to give a good, full account on a setup as close to the apt-get
default install as possible. So, just to close with a quick summary of
pros vs. cons:
PROS:
* No crashes or freezes during seven-day test window --- improvement from
>=1 crash per 24 hours.
* Very, very easy to install, thanks to apt.
* Easy enough to switch back to GNOME at will.
* NO CRASHES, NO LOSS OF WORK! WOO-HOO!!!!
CONS:
* Bloated, heavy, slow, and a bit juvenile in appearance.
(NOTE: Until switching to Ubuntu from Mandriva, I had always preferred
KDE.)
* Relatively slow response times to input from control devices.
* Need to re-familiarize myself with keystroke combinations in KDE vs.
GNOME.
* Not a fan of the new menus and navigation structure.
* Too much "eye candy" for my personal preference.
* Memory utilization notably higher in KDE, even during extended idle
periods.
* A few times, applications drawing to center screen left a "whiteboard" -
where you drag other windows over and it leaves their foreground on top of the
screen on the "whiteboard" area - until the processes were killed or died.
* For whatever reason, ~/Desktop doesn't display on the GUI desktop as
icons.
* Window and widget edge detection doesn't always seem to calculate
properly with relation to the physical aspect and available space of the screen.
* Window swapping would sometimes cause a window not selected to gain focus.
* Clicking borders of some windows to try to gain focus caused them to
minimize to the center. (Perhaps a "feature"?)
That's about it for now. In a bit of a rush to get out to finish some
high-priority stuff before the US holiday weekend here, so my apologies
if these notes appear a little skewed. Any questions you have about my
experience, send them to (danbrown AT php DOT net) and I'll try to
answer them.
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