[Wylug-discuss] Re: what is the difference?

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 05 Sep 2007, Tom Hall wrote:
> Key difference for me is the GUI toolkit used, QT in KDE and GTK in
> Gnome and XFCE.
> You can run all applications in any of them, but it is heavier on
> memory (as it needs to load both the librarys) and the look and feel
> is inconsistent.
> Just pick whatever you prefer (the fact that Ubuntu changes the layout
> and theme of all 3 desktops has advantages, but I dont like it.
> Enlightenment may be worth considering too, looks cool and they use it
> on the PS3)
>
> See you next week I hope,
> Tom
>
I'm fairly certain you are wrong.  You need to install all libraries, but they 
are not loaded into memory.  Libraries are called as and when required.

Anne

> > Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:19:09 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] what is the difference?
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > this goes into more detail than I could and seems fair:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_enviro
> >nments
> >
> > hope it's useful,
> >
> > John.
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:41 +0100, Scott Hodgson wrote:
> > > I am a little perplexed as to the difference between the 3 main desktop
> > > interface's
> > >
> > > What is the difference between KDE GNOME and XFCE, I thought it was the
> > > display - as in xfce was like a mac, kde all at bottom of screen and
> > > gnome at the top - but having looked at ubuntu, kubuntu and xubuntu
> > > they all have the same layout.  could someone put me straight.  all the
> > > websites I have seen is that it is the look and feel of it, but also
> > > they say xfce is more performance based but they all look alike on the
> > > 'buntu group.
> > >

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