On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:55 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:33 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > max wrote: > > > > >> > > > How much and what kind of impact does running a KDE app in Gnome > > > actually have? > > > > You end up loading essentially duplicate libraries into ram for > > functionality that should be in a shared library, so you take the hit of > > extra disk space, extra time to load, and extra RAM use for everything > > that doesn't use a common toolkit. > > > > -- > > Les Mikesell > > lesmikeell@xxxxxxxxx > > > > > > I'll pipe up here and note that shouldn't there be a common toolkit > across the board then? Make all apps use them same general toolkit and > one that defines say look and feel? > > Then again that may mean that Gnome and Kde lose what they are... Seems > a bit of a conundrum to me. > Is it important how windows are displayed, or what they can do and how they do it? I wonder why KDE and Gnome use the same graphics system but differs in sound. I dont want the os to be like a wc with built in radio and a toast machine. still i love linux -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list