Re: Gnome/KDE resources
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:59 -0500, Rob Benton wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700
> >>Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
> >>
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >>I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In my subjective opinion,
> >>Gnome 2.14 runs much faster and with less resources than KDE 5.4.
> >>
> >>However, KDE appears to have more usage and configuration options which
> >>may make the resource use worthwhile to you.
> >
> >
> > And yes, GNOME Terminal is an outrageous pig. So I use rxvt. Nice
> > and small and does what's needed.
> >
>
> I definitely agree with that. Just my personal opinion is that I like
> Gtk better than Qt if only for visual appearance. It's also easier to
> theme which is why there are many more Gtk themes. I like Epiphany much
> better than Konqueror for web browsing but for file management I prefer
> Konqueror over Nautilus.
Real Geeks don't use GUI file managers.
Really Real Geeks don't even use char mode file managers.
> The thing about KDE that I've never been a big fan of is their DCOP
> system. It takes time to get those processes started. That's not such
> a big deal if you use KDE as your environment because that's loaded once
> on startup. But if you use Gnome and want to run a KDE application you
> have to wait for DCOP which annoys me.
>
>
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