Advice for Red Hat/Fedora
Henning Larsen
hennlar at start.no
Sat Feb 23 00:53:00 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:55 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:33 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > max wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > > How much and what kind of impact does running a KDE app in Gnome
> > > actually have?
> >
> > You end up loading essentially duplicate libraries into ram for
> > functionality that should be in a shared library, so you take the hit of
> > extra disk space, extra time to load, and extra RAM use for everything
> > that doesn't use a common toolkit.
> >
> > --
> > Les Mikesell
> > lesmikeell at gmail.com
> >
> >
>
> I'll pipe up here and note that shouldn't there be a common toolkit
> across the board then? Make all apps use them same general toolkit and
> one that defines say look and feel?
>
> Then again that may mean that Gnome and Kde lose what they are... Seems
> a bit of a conundrum to me.
>
Is it important how windows are displayed, or what they can do and how
they do it? I wonder why KDE and Gnome use the same graphics system but
differs in sound. I dont want the os to be like a wc with built in radio
and a toast machine.
still i love linux
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