Re: XFCE, and Gnome
On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:51:57 +0530
"Masatran, R. Deepak" <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> wrote:
> XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are
> based on GTK, won't Gnome be equally fast? What is it that makes XFCE
> faster than Gnome?
>
GNOME uses additional libraries on top of GTK, and takes a performance
hit as a result. That said, the performance of GNOME has been improving
slowly with each recent release.
BTW, GNOME and XFCE are desktop environments, as opposed to window
managers. They each include a window manager (metacity and xfwin,
respectively).
--
Liam
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