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On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: |
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> On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote: |
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> > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that |
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> > all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into |
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> > memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic |
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> > collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and |
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> > memory usage goes up. |
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> With this in mind, would running a (few) GTK apps on KDE make a large |
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> difference? For instance, I am quite fond of Gaim, and even if I were |
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> to try KDE, I wouldn't want to give it up (though I heard Kopette is |
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> comparably capable). |
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I'm using Gaim because it is lighter, but Kopete can do more (e.g. voicecalls |
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with Gmail). Once I have loaded Kmail or any other KDE base application then |
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the added load of Kopete is not that much. In any case, running Gaim ontop |
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of KDE is more or less imperceptible. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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