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 1H8Qkc-00056F-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:40:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0L0cXjK006498; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:38:33 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0L0VlI9029866 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:31:47 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1656828nfb for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:31:46 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Ppyt6PaS4sDvLO16Q75fZvZRu7gRDPz1SyNM7X0Jgb5/l0N+Qu+CQszWmhUF80ldyd/+1RT6lEOECEIKaTnboZ7bGfFJj+ruxKD1TYPcvjn8SDPhS2MVzcylCcbCOm5DwrT6iREyOm9icqi8erBwxgHsMnkq6gGYZUA5oWGJj14= Received: by 10.48.48.13 with SMTP id v13mr4422614nfv.1169339505078; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:31:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id c1sm10227748nfe.2007.01.20.16.31.44; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:31:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:31:24 +0000 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1357737.6fKttMogE6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701210031.26164.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 08760685-7979-4a95-9597-306836c8a4fd X-Archives-Hash: ff9a1bfd439217c76ac1609d772197f3 --nextPart1357737.6fKttMogE6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is th= at > > all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into > > memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic=20 > > 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). I'm using Gaim because it is lighter, but Kopete can do more (e.g. voicecal= ls=20 with Gmail). Once I have loaded Kmail or any other KDE base application th= en=20 the added load of Kopete is not that much. In any case, running Gaim ontop= =20 of KDE is more or less imperceptible. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1357737.6fKttMogE6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFsrRe5Fp0QerLYPcRAjBnAJ4iiIZBJ8Fg3vN8j/n8gaBiu81+ngCguZUG OajO9681jYZq/tau2ukr76I= =/zdc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1357737.6fKttMogE6-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list