Re: XFCE, and Gnome
On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:07:12 -0400
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:09 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:33:57 -0400
> > Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:51 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak 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?
> > >
> > > Try it. Experience it. You can easily install it and try it, without
> > > losing anything.
> > >
> > > Main reason it doesn't have the "configuration" daemons or backend
> > > components that require resources. It does have some stuff.
> > >
> > > It also removes features, which is misguided. XFCE has everything I want
> > > and then some.
>
> XFCE is my default desktop now. Proudly. It works with all the bell,
> buttons, widgets, function, window behavior, effects... I want.
>
> > Which removes features, which is misguided?
>
> GNOME. Case goes like this. Peep likes to use feature X in GNOME.
> Discovers a bug in feature X, files a bug against it. GNOME team(s) look
> at it, ponder and ask for guidance from the Mighty Jeff Waugh, who then
> consults in a dark and cryptic language called "sane defaults and user
> don't know what they need". They then pronounce feature X is deprecated
> and no longer supported in GNOME, except by another crypotic program
> called "gconf-tool".
I didn't get your point because I thought you were relating feature
subtraction to performance, and I therefore thought that you meant that
Xfce was removing features ...
> This is just an example and might possibly be embellished by the
> explaining individual (me). Just look and make a call for yourself.
>
> > I think I'm misguided :).
>
> Using GNOME? Yes, yes you are.
No, no, you're misguided about what I use; I'm a proud Xfce user, and
I've never really used GNOME or KDE.
> greg, greg@gregfolkert.net
Celejar
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