On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, ABrady spewed into the bitstream:
A>
A>On 14-Mar-2001 Larry Grover opined:
A>
A>>> > My reaction was to install KDE 2.1 -- which I'm very pleased with.
A>>>
A>>> Better. But, still too much CPU and memory use for my tastes to use
A>>> it as a full desktop. I have it installed along with gnome and use
A>>> what I like out of them rather than run up all of the excess.
A>>
A>> Out of curiosity, I put kde2.1 on one of my older machines (P200, 64 mb
A>> ram). In comparison with the WM I used previously on this machine
A>> (blacbox), the biggest difference I found was in start-up speed: about
A>> 40 sec to start kde, about 2 sec to start blackbox.
A>>
A>> However, once started, I couldn't tell much difference between kde and
A>> bb, even running two fairly heavy-weight applications simultaneously
A>> (netscape + star office).
A>>
A>> Of course, I might have noticed more of a difference if this machine
A>> had a slower processor, or less ram.
A>
A>KDE starts too slow for my tastes. But, it also uses much more ram and
A>CPU time than I prefer. It still likes to load too much into use at once
A>for me.
A>
A>I prefer something much lighter, say XFCE (very light but, I never
A>figured out how to get it to do what I wanted with keyboard shortcuts,
A>and while the taskbar was sizeable, it didn't have small sizing increments
A>that would have made it better for me)
You should try it now... the tool bar gets very, very small now and I'd
be interested to hear what keyboard short-cuts you needed and could not
implement!:-)
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