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

[Geoff Teale]

Thomas Adam wrote:

>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.
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Put simply - you _can_.

>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. 
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Fair enough.  But then you should be using somehting lightweight and not 
expecting something like GNOME to do the job.  Horses for courses.  If 
you want a minimal window manager out of the box then TWM is your 
friend.   TWM users can look at FVWM and Fluxbox users and laugh at the 
*huge* amounts of memory they waste.

>I am not that bothered.
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Very few people are... ;-)

>Then you're probably not doing it correctly. :)
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.... er... yuh... I kinda figured... ;-)

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Geoff