M Harris wrote:
On Friday 09 February 2007 03:11, John Andersen wrote:
the minute you launch any kde app you pay almost the full price for using kde, because it has to launch all of the stuff kde wants to run. If you don't believe it, just launch any kde app from a shell in xfce, while watching memory usage. That's what I was afraid of...
... thanks for the heads up. So for those days when I am up to my armpits in the compiler (maybe a little Firefox or Thunderbird) then no problem? I do use the Kontact suite heavily... but I wouldn't have to when I have Xfce going. Thanks again.
However my observation is a bit different. When I run my old thinkpad 600 with KDE, it is virtually unusable. When I run it with xfce it is a lot more sanppier and I would regard it to be a reasonable computer for moderate usage. Now when I fire up a KDE application from there, it takes time (for sure), but it works nicely after starting, while I would not have any joy when I firstly start KDE on that machine and then run the same application. So you need to pay for KDE apps, but I think it is well worth the money spent. ;-)). And while there is not real substitute for kontact as a "onestopshop", you can always use lightweight apps that offer a similar experience. For example, I use happily the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client for mail, contacts and news and the extension "lightning" offers a very good calendar that is rapidly developped to be first class. So it is not Outlook yet but it is on a good way to be better than Outlook, and still good for xfce. ;-)) I am starting to wonder why I do not get money for xfce advocacy? ;-)) regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org