Why is gnome better? RE: [Sussex] Promoting SLUG

[Thomas Adam]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:17:49 +0100
Geoff Teale <gteale at cmedltd.com> wrote:

> I don't think you're going to see a lot of progress in that direction 
> I'm afriad.  To my knowledge GNOME is not as bad as KDE in this 
> respect.  People often complain about the amount of memory things use
> - the long and short of it, the more functionality you expect the more
> CPU time, disk space and memory you're going to have to sacrifice.

Perhaps, but the *amount* it takes up should not infringe on that. There
should be the option of unloading all the fluff if need be so that it is
relatively non-intensive.

> Put simply - if you're a power user looking for raw speed then you 
> shouldn't be running an XServer in the first place.  If you want a

I diagree with that completely. Ok, so I rarely use a GUI, but to be
honest there are a number of things that I do that simply *require* an
Xserver to be running. 

> If you're really worried about memory use I suggest hacking the
> source# of all your GTK apps and adding the following line liberally:
> 
> g_blow_chunks()

I am not that bothered.

> My tollerance for Debian packages today is at an all time low.  I've 
> seen dpkg-buildpackage tell me it's ignoring my perfectly valid
> changes one to many times today.... grrrrr....

Then you're probably not doing it correctly. :)

-- Thomas Adam

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