[Gllug] Window Managers

[Peter Childs]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Tethys wrote:

> KDE in particular is guilty of more bloat than even Microsoft can 
manage.
> Looking at the process table while it was running, I was horrified. I
> suspect GNOME may be similar, but since the panel dumped core on startup,
> I couldn't check...
> 
> Both GNOME and KDE need some *serious* work on their default setups to
> ensure they work on older machines. I'm not saying we need to consider
> a 386 here. But a K6-450 should easily be able to run a graphical
> desktop. To say I'm unimpressed is a *huge* understatement.
> 
> Tet
> 
> 

	hmm X is bad enough but KDE and Gnome do NOT help! I've now taken 
to using WindowMaker with Konsole, since I never used much else of KDE any 
how! Anyway the multiude of docking apps available is nice! 
	I to am not sure what KDE does with its time (Gnome too for that 
matter I've seen it running tooo) If WindowMaker can do it all why can't 
KDE do the same (and a little more in the same time or less) 
	I'm told they run Corba etc but even these things but even these 
should not bring in so much bloat. Plus when I linked my Qt app against 
KDE it bloats. Now Qt ain't good (hmm it takes ages to just shift data 
round memory) but it ain't THAT bad (Qt is under KDE for thouse who don't 
know).
	Now for a cure. (which I ain't got the time to carry out) Create a
new (yes yet another new) distro that is user frendly but slick (probably
based on WindowMaker becuase I like it and the graphical configation is
not bad) has every thing but defaults to a nice quick desktop! Oh hang on
thats what I'm planning for my users desktop here at work (Planning to use
RedHat with WindowMaker as the default desktop :) !).

Peter Childs 


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