Razor-Qt: A New Qt-Based Desktop Environment
Feel like a change of desktop? Just came across the following posting on phoronix: Razor-Qt is a new Qt-based desktop environment for Linux systems. The Razor-Qt desktop was just updated to version 0.4.0 after being in development for months. This release improves stability of the lightweight desktop, introduces several new components, offers new translations, a new theme, new panel plug-ins, and much more. The new Razor desktop components are azor-runner, razor-config, qtxdg, and Razor own menu. Razor-Qt is self-described as "an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and intuitive interface. Unlike desktop environments, Razor-qt also works fine with weak machines." More information on this new desktop release can be found in this blog posting: http://yarpen.cz/rants/?p=43 Phoronix post: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyOTg Razor-Qt homepage: http://razor-qt.org/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Thanks Peter, That looks quite interesting. Might give that one a go over the break. Cheers, Chris On 20 December 2011 09:23, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
Feel like a change of desktop? Just came across the following posting on phoronix:
Razor-Qt is a new Qt-based desktop environment for Linux systems.
The Razor-Qt desktop was just updated to version 0.4.0 after being in development for months. This release improves stability of the lightweight desktop, introduces several new components, offers new translations, a new theme, new panel plug-ins, and much more. The new Razor desktop components are azor-runner, razor-config, qtxdg, and Razor own menu.
Razor-Qt is self-described as "an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and intuitive interface. Unlike desktop environments, Razor-qt also works fine with weak machines."
More information on this new desktop release can be found in this blog posting: http://yarpen.cz/rants/?p=43
Phoronix post: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyOTg
Razor-Qt homepage: http://razor-qt.org/
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Has anyone found Nautilus to be getting slower and slower? In the past couple of weeks I've noticed that Nautilus now takes a bit longer to load a folder, regardless of how many files are in it -- long enough that it now shows a 'Loading...' pop-up in the bottom corner. I was wondering if there's a reason for this. There are apparently fixes for it, but for earlier versions of Ubuntu. As I'm using 11.10, the apps referred to are no longer present, I think. Sandy
On 23/12/11 10:10, Sandy wrote:
Has anyone found Nautilus to be getting slower and slower? In the past couple of weeks I've noticed that Nautilus now takes a bit longer to load a folder, regardless of how many files are in it -- long enough that it now shows a 'Loading...' pop-up in the bottom corner.
I was wondering if there's a reason for this. There are apparently fixes for it, but for earlier versions of Ubuntu. As I'm using 11.10, the apps referred to are no longer present, I think.
Sandy
I had/have this problem on a Kubuntu box (currently 10.04). It used to be pretty snappy on 8.04 with KDE 3.X, but after the upgrade to 10.04 was annoyingly slow. That was partly because of KDE 4.X, but mainly because of the default cpu throttling settings. The machine has an AMD 4800+ and the defaults for powernowd are lower load limit=20, upper limit=80. What it appears to do is linearly scale the CPU speed (from 1000-2500 MHz) between these limits based on load. I have set the limits to 10 and 20 so that if anyone is doing anything it goes at full speed and only throttles back if there is nothing at all happening. Not sure if this will help you, but it's a possibility. Cheers Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 09 9735603 http://www.componic.co.nz
Hmm. I've never had this problem before. I have the choice of 'Ondemand', 'Conservative', 'Performance' and 'Powersave', or 800MHz, 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz and 2GHz. Usually it's on 'Ondemand' (as I have a laptop). Even when it's at full speed, even the home directory takes 2-3 seconds to display the icons. Sandy On 23/12/11 12:51, Glenn Ramsey wrote:
I had/have this problem on a Kubuntu box (currently 10.04). It used to be pretty snappy on 8.04 with KDE 3.X, but after the upgrade to 10.04 was annoyingly slow. That was partly because of KDE 4.X, but mainly because of the default cpu throttling settings. The machine has an AMD 4800+ and the defaults for powernowd are lower load limit=20, upper limit=80. What it appears to do is linearly scale the CPU speed (from 1000-2500 MHz) between these limits based on load. I have set the limits to 10 and 20 so that if anyone is doing anything it goes at full speed and only throttles back if there is nothing at all happening.
Not sure if this will help you, but it's a possibility.
Cheers Glenn
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