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 1H8LsD-0000GH-3T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:27:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0KJQWEI023758; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:26:32 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0KJIxFY014169 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:18:59 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1544252nfb for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:18:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dC9rgiN7mol1g5hetG1SsHvbg8MflrzRf2WIFirc9IgtMq43/1QTrACXCW89uDgUu/WoAXILcOmiUmvcuikb9rTmCrwiwxSMneCpa6u/hhQQRZt578WT1zRkMpZi6sa/51342U8CQbjww208m6lUDOqeRZIUeNED6Kil8ADnyXk= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr2961485bue.1169317391826; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.179.19 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:23:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:23:11 +0200 From: "Vlad Dogaru" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system In-Reply-To: <200701200852.11504.uwix@iway.na> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45B11EA5.9030301@gmail.com> <200701200852.11504.uwix@iway.na> X-Archives-Salt: 5a845ddd-54ec-40aa-bc9f-82a2b53dc4d1 X-Archives-Hash: 66ca39446dc4e3a150e925c01bcb9e2e 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). -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list