Advice for Red Hat/Fedora
John Wendel
john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Sat Feb 23 01:11:05 UTC 2008
Henning Larsen 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 think they sell those (wc w/radio and toast) in Japan. Or did I see
that on Monty Python?
Remember the development history of KDE and Gnome - KDE C++ vs Gnome
C, now Gnome seems to be heading for C# and Mono (isn't that a
disease?). All accompanied by many pissing contests.
Competition, is sometimes not so great. I think I'd prefer cooperation
in this area.
Have a great weekend!
John
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