On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > MATE IS growing. And MATE developers are starting to contribute to Gnome. :) > > Dan So is Cinnamon. So is XMonad. So is <spit> Unity, for that matter. What *doesn't* seem to be growing is LXDE, and I'm not sure about XFCE, Enlightenment and WindowMaker. The lightweight window manager / desktop space seems to me to be floundering except for XMonad. I finally got around to putting a few hours into getting XMonad functional on my Fedora 18 boxes. I haven't quite gotten used to some of its quirks, but at least I'm in a position to compare its memory usage with the other lightweight alternatives. To be blunt, 4 GB *used* to be a lot of RAM but GNOME 3, KDE 4 and Cinnamon are swallowing big chunks of it, and so are Firefox and Chromium / Chrome. I'm beginning to think Google has the right idea with the ChromeBook - shove so much functionality into the browser that you only need an OS to manage the devices. ;-) I want my RAM back! -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://znmeb.github.com/Computational-Journalism-Publishers-Workbench/ How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
