Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 1/22/06, Paul S. Bains <gentoo@satx.rr.com> wrote:
> Uncompiled code is not loaded into ram because it is only text. The
> exception is when you are editing it..! Unless I've been compiling all
> these years for no reason...:) Code must actually be compiled into a
> binary and called in one way or another to be loaded into ram.
>
> If you mean compiled, unused code can be loaded into ram, that is
> correct, but there is nothing the user can do about that - it's a
> function of the application: not all compiled code gets ran at a given
> time, because perhaps not all functions are being utilized at any given
> moment - depends on the program.
>
> On 01/22/06 03:47:12, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> > Paul S. Bains wrote:
> >> You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc
> >> space.
> >
> > Well, the code _can_ be loaded, without being executed, and therefore
> > taking up RAM.
> >
> > -Kristian Poul Herkild

In the time this thread has been going I managed to compile and start
KDE for the first time in years. (I'm a Gnome user mostly) My
impressions:

1) It seems HUGE. Menus full of so many apps....

2) It appears to be very configurable.

3) It seemed to run nicely in most cases.

4) It crashed X on my P4HT machine when exiting. Gnome was running ina
first login. I started a new session from xscreensaver's New Login
button and chose KDE. When exiting KDE I couldn't get back to
xscreensaver or a console. Logging in remotely and restarting xdm
didn't help. I had to do a complete shutdown -h now.

5) I have not tried it with Jack to see if it would hurt my audio
work, but it might be OK for my wife and son on a day to day basis.
Unfortunately I wouldn't know the answers to their configuration
questions and it might be more trouble than it's worth. (To me...)

Not sure I have the stomach to keep something this large up to date. I
couldn't find kde-light, as I'm a Gnome-light user mostly.

Cheers,
Mark

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