KDE and speed

On Monday 01 October 2001 02:52 am, you wrote:
> SuSE 7.1 on an ATI XPert2000 card
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard L. Proctor" <krycom1@home.com>
> To: "Lucas Vogel" <lucas7@home.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 10:33 PM
> Subject: Re: KDE and speed
>
> > On Monday 01 October 2001 12:34 am, you wrote:
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> > > Has anyone noticed how slow KDE is? I'm running 2.2.1 and everything
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> seems
>
> > > to run so doggedly slow. I have an Athlon 1Ghz and 256MB of memory, yet
> > > when I go to open Konqueror or Kmail it takes 2-3 seconds for it to
> > > load up. Is it just me or what? Do I need to tweak something somewhere?
> >
> > Which distro are you using?
>
Have you tried accessing your programs from gnome to see if there is any
difference?