On Friday 11 December 2009 09:01:26 David C. Rankin wrote:
This is an excerpt from another post I wrote recently in an offlist discussion, but I thought I would pass along the general parts concerning the desktop evaluations just in case anyone else may want a little summary of what all the alternative desktops for openSuSE are and a sentence or two about each.
Thanks, David, this was very interesting to me.
* lxde (blackbox, fluxbox, icewm and openbox + some nice tools for dynamic menus (scans gnome, kde & other apps and then is smart enough cache the results so the latest apps are always available in the menu if you have menu cache installed. (must have)
Was the presence of this dynamic menu cache an interesting feature for you compared to other WMs/lightweight DEs or also compared to KDE/GNOME? I ask because KDE has had a cache here since KDE 2 (sycoca, generated by kbuildsycoca4, which it rebuilds when you edit things in kmenuedit or change file associations and it puts up a 'Rebuilding system configuration' progress dialog, and I wonder if its performance improvements are being lost by some other part of KDE4 underperforming... Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org