At 2004-06-15T15:52:23Z, Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> writes: > He got it from someone surmising that my KDE was 200Mb without backing it > up. I think you're probably right. Maybe it's that people load KDE and launch one program and freak out at the resource usage. They don't realize that KDE is very aggressively factored, so that first program probably loads 90% of the resources that they'll ever use. The marginal cost for launching the second and subsequent applications is almost null. For example, I hear people talking about Konqueror's "bloat", which is just plain ignorant. Konqueror is actually pretty darn slim, but it loads a lot of shareable components to serve all of the functionality it provides. It's not like it really has a built-in text editor, PDF viewer, or even HTML renderer - those are all KParts that it calls to handle a specific task. Other applications use the same KParts to do the same tasks. To me, it seems like a very elegant Unix-ish way of doing things. Noone complains that a shell script is "bloated" because it implements all of the functionality of sed, grep, and cat. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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