On Friday 20 July 2001 14:03, Giles Nunn wrote:
Just as you are getting sorted I thought I would throw in a few ideas to confuse the issue.
According to a review in Linux Format magazine blackbox uses 2100k whereas icewm uses only 1000k! If correct that could save you a bit. Ice does have the other advantage for windows users that it looks almost the same as win95, including start button menu accessible by ctrl-esc and taskbar which applications minimize to. The taskbar will even run in autohide mode like win95 for those of us who don't like a cluttered screen. It uses simple textfiles to configure the menu structure etc , and even has a gui tool (icepref) for setting up preferences.
Just tried it. As installed it actually takes more memory than blackbox - according to Top (which might be the wrong thing to be looking at, and if someone can give me a better measure, then I'll use it) I have 3.5Mb less free memory when running icewm over blackbox. However it is clearly a much more familiar environment for the kids, and it is running a lot of superfluous toys at the moment. I'll strip it down and report back. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll