On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:04:46 +0200 rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > rosea.grammostola wrote: > > > >> On 06/25/2011 06:36 PM, david wrote: > >> > >>> rosea grammostola wrote: > >>> > >>> So guys, just upgrade Gnome2 to Gnome3? ... Is it true that both > >>>> Gnome-shell and Unity needs Pulseaudio? > >>>> > >>> > >>> I don't know about that. I know that Gnome3 uses 1GB of memory ... > >>> > >> > >> Wow! Yeah, the points that made us proud of Linux slowly seems to > >> fade away... :( These new Desktop developments doesn't seems to be > >> good for Linuxaudio users at all... > >> > > > > Hey, I'm the kind of guy who likes Fluxbox, so I'm not necessarily > > a fan of these "new" desktop developments. > > > > There's a fork of KDE3, I forget the name, but it's being updated > > regularly. If you prefer KDE3's comparative leanness, it's an > > option. > > > > > > Btw do you know what KDE4 uses? One dev told that it would be > > lighter then > >> KDE3 when KDE4 was released. > >> > > > > I don't know how much KDE4 uses. I've heard (from the same online > > source that supplied the Gnome3 mem usage figure) that KDE4 comes > > in at less than that. How much less, I don't recall. > > > > A friend of mine that used KDE4 for awhile said that he thought it > > was using less memory than KDE3. He tried LXDE but had stability > > issues, so he's using XFCE. He says that when he does run a KDE4 > > app, he has a shell script he runs afterwards that kills 9 KDE4 > > system services it started up and left running upon exit. I believe > > that what makes KDE4 not good for audio is its ton of background > > system services, each one doing its thing at intervals and playing > > hell with low latency setups. Especially the Akonadi (sp?) service > > that indexes everything in your home folder and stores the index > > results in a disk-hogging SQL database. The moment you modify a > > file, the indexing service fires up and reindexes it. Or something > > like that. > > > > > > My > >> > >>> wife's new netbook has Ubuntu 11.04 on it, haven't noticed if > >>> it's using PA or not, but sound works. > >>> > >> Ok, Ubuntu uses Unity. Do you know how Unity compares to > >> Gnome-shell when it comes to system resources? > >> > > > > I don't know. It uses Compiz for its visual effects, I don't know > > what Gnome-shell uses. > > > > > It looks like XFCE will be the 'next Gnome2´ ... It looks better then > in the past and it seems to be pretty comparable with Gnome2. It > seems to be a possible to remove pulseaudio from Xubuntu. And of > course you can install Fluxbox together with it (I prefer fluxbox > also myself ;) ) > so if this trend continues, lxde is what xfce used to be and it will become like gnome 2 when xfce has moved on to gnome3... I installed latest ubuntu some time ago on a laptop and was baffled... what was so bad about gnome2 to have to change it completely to that *thing*? cheers renato _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
