Advice for Red Hat/Fedora
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 00:56:58 UTC 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Henning Larsen <hennlar at start.no> wrote:
>
> 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
I wasn't aware that they used the same graphics system, or do you mean X?
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