Advice for Red Hat/Fedora

[John Wendel]

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