[Wolves] What makes Gnome/KDE slow?

[Stuart Langridge]

> I was wondering if anyone knows what makes Gnome/KDE slow. Is there a
> specific component responsible like the panel or window manager? How
> is it that programs like XFCE seem to have pretty much a lot of the
> functionality of Gnome and still be fast?

They are slower than some more lean desktop environments because they
do a lot more. In the same way, Firefox is a lot slower than Amaya,
because it does more stuff.

> I recently replaced Metacity with Openbox but didn't really notice any
> advantage and so have been looking at alternative desktop environments
> but none really seem to be what I want as what I would like is Gnome
> but faster.

We'd all like that. :)

Aq.