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[Arthur Pemberton]

On Jan 15, 2008 1:19 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > The "Look and Feel" factors have come to overshadow all else. Often in
> > > some cases literally pushing system resource demands way out of
> > > proportion. Anyone care to name their bloatware examples? I will state
> > > that the window managers of light footprint tend to have an amusing
> > > fraction of resource usage compared to KDE or others.
> >
> > All reports are that KDE4 is lighter than KDE3. I wouldn't consider
> > KDE bloatware myself, but I guess that is subjective.
>
> Also try not to compare apples and oranges. :)
>
> That is, if you're comparing *window managers*, compare them to KWin, not to
> all of KDE. And don't include kdelibs in your comparison unless you're
> prepared to include the libraries used by Other WM.
>
> Regardless of the comparison, realize that kdelibs and Qt are used by not
> merely KWin, but also all the desktop applications in KDE. Since these are
> shared objects, in theory, the overall memory consumption should be
> minimized.


Well said. .... now if only I cold get rid all of all those gtk+ apps.


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