On 4/26/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The thing about KDE that I've never been a big fan of is their DCOP
> system. It takes time to get those processes started. That's not such
> a big deal if you use KDE as your environment because that's
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:16:16 +0100
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cool. Do you launch them just by kicking off kdesktop and gnome-panel
> somewhere in the openbox config?
I run fluxbox and start just about everything extra from my .xsession
file and have the option for the fluxbox panel
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:08:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:59 -0500, Rob Benton wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700
> > >>Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:59 -0500, Rob Benton wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700
> >>Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >>I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In
Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The thing about KDE that I've never been a big fan of is their DCOP
> system. It takes time to get those processes started. That's not such
> a big deal if you use KDE as your environment because that's loaded once
> on startup. But if you use Gnome and w
On 04/26/2006 02:20 PM, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:16:16PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
>>> Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote:
>>
>I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE
>components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdes
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:16:16PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote:
> >I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE
> >components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop) which
> >uses less resources than any of them, but still has
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:16:16 +0100
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote:
> > I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE
> > components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop)
> > which uses less resources than any of th
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In my subjective opinion,
Gnome 2.14 runs much faster and with less resources than KDE 5.
Ron Johnson wrote:
I suppose that should've been version 2.8
Gotcha. What branch is that, Stable? Sid is at 2.14, and 2.8 is
old enough that I didn't believe that anyone is still using it...
Uhm yes that's stable (though I don't use gnome myself)
(Chances of breakage still make me feel I
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:05 +0200, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:15 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> >>Both desktops have been making huge strides lately in performance and
> >>what not. I hadn't used GNOME/KDE in about a year, but I have given the
> >>1.8 r
Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote:
I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE
components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop) which
uses less resources than any of them, but still has that "Desktop
Environment" convenience.
Cool. Do you launch them
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:15 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
Both desktops have been making huge strides lately in performance and
what not. I hadn't used GNOME/KDE in about a year, but I have given the
1.8 release a whirl and it does seem a lot snappier.
Version 1.8? Am I
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700
> Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In my subjective opinion,
> Gnome 2.14 runs much faster and with less resources than KDE 5.4.
>
> Howeve
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:15 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:01 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> > I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses
> > less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux
> > on an older machine f
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:15:39PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I still think GNOME/KDE (despite their improvements) are a little bit
> too fat for older systems w/out much ram... it's certainly not very
> groovy on my old 256M laptop. I generally use openbox, but if you're
> looking
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less
resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an
older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK.
Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:14:20PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>
> On 25.04.2006, at 15:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> >Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> >>I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses
> >>less
> >>resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install l
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses
> less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux
> on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK.
>
> Now
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>
> On 25.04.2006, at 15:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
>>
>> If you are looking for low resource usage, then you want Window Maker
>> (my favorite), or fluxbox, or Enlightenment, or XFCE, or IceWM, or any
>> of the many other lightweight WMs.
>>
>> -Roberto
>
>
> No
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:01 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses
> less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux
> on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK.
>
> Now I get the latest
On 25.04.2006, at 15:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses
less
resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux
on an
older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK.
Now
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less
> resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an
> older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK.
>
> Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than
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