From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H8WtS-0007jz-4j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:13:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0L7CBXr014391; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:12:11 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0L75OXs005249 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:05:25 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A2B64AD for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:05:20 +0200 (WAST) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B91A1E21 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:05:21 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.89]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id JC7ICX03.861 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:05:21 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H8NA4-0008UZ-Bg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:50:04 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:50:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200701200852.11504.uwix@iway.na> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701202250.04182.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: d391932b-2743-45fe-bd73-54f76595f601 X-Archives-Hash: 059751fd01ceeebf9a6d4e394a443814 On 20 January 2007 20:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that > > all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into > > memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic > > collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and > > memory usage goes up. > > With this in mind, would running a (few) GTK apps on KDE make a large > difference? For instance, I am quite fond of Gaim, and even if I were > to try KDE, I wouldn't want to give it up (though I heard Kopette is > comparably capable). If one is short of ram, it makes a difference, though GTK isn't much of a problem. If you run one single GNOME app under KDE, it pulls in a lot of GNOME libraries - and vice versa. Ue -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list