[ale] Linux desktop inefficiencies...

[Thomas Holmquist]

I use IceWM, Its wonderful: Fast (no loading screen), Full-featured 
(everything you would expect in a windowmanager), and small (Currently 
using 3224KB of my memory)

As a GUI file browser, I use ROX, it too is very small and nice (7756KB)

And instead of OpenOffice (which I use, Just not that often), I use 
Abiword 11MB vs. 245!!!



John Wells wrote:

><rant>
>Is it just me, or are Gnome and KDE apps complete memory hogs?  I'm 
>trying to scrounge by on 256mb of memory under RH 9/Gnome, and man, is it 
>difficult.  Now, part of the problem is that I use java quite a bit, but 
>typically don't have more than one jvm going at a time.
>
>Apps you'd think would have relatively small footprint are huge, in my 
>opinion.  For example, running Gnome System Monitor consumes 9.2MB on my 
>system...why?  Why in the world would that consume so much memory?  It 
>makes no sense to me that the monitoring of network/cpu/memory should be 
>so consuming...
>
>Nautilus has always been a hog (8.2 currently...which seems to be an 
>improvement over past versions), gnome-panel at 12.2 MB, gnome-terminal at 
>13.3MB, gweather-applet-2 at 4.4MB...
>
>When I first installed RH 5.2 back in 99, I was able to run WindowMaker or 
>Afterstep with quite a few apps going in 16 megs of RAM.  I couldn't fit 
>RH9's big toe in that box.
>
>I don't run KDE, but I've heard from friends that it's essentially just as 
>bad...
>
>So what's the culprit?  Is it Gnome's reliance on Corba?  Is it poor 
>design of the toolkits themselves?  Is it the underlying X protocol? 
>I shudder to say this, but applications on Windows that do the equivalent 
>of many of the above have much smaller footprints and are more responsive 
>under heavy load.  
></rant>
>
>Don't get me wrong...I love linux, and I'm particularly home in 
>Gnome....but sometimes things just don't seem right.
>
>Anyone have any insight?
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>
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