On 20 January 2007 20:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
