On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:01, kosh wrote: > I don't care if it becomes 10 times as large as Windows XP so long as it is > using that to do something useful. For example the kde ioslaves save me a > huge ammount of time since I can use just about any url protcol from any > app transparently. I really don't care what load that puts on the system > because frankly it is worth it. Memory is cheap and so is cpu power and for > what I do (building custom web apps) the time saving of a system like that > are worth the minor cost involved. For about $500 you can get an athlon xp > 2200, a KT400 board and 1G of DDR333 ram.
That is indeed what I paid for my kt400 based system, be it with somewhat less memory :) . I frankly also don't care what Xp uses its memory for, except for keeping the wintel upgrade cycle alive. I am not running it as a desktop system and I never will. > It would be nice if kde where faster then it is now sure but I would not > trade that speed for features that I use now and hope to get more of in the > future. I would like it if I could embed kate in all <textarea> </textarea> > objects on the web so that I could use a real editor in them. If it uses up > more memory to do that I don't really care because the gain would be worth > it. The stuff could be made optional but I want the option to turn all of > it on that saves me time. kioslaves save me a good 30 minutes or so day and > that is 2.5 hours/week or 125 hours/year. For 125 hours I can afford to > sink a lot more into hardware if that is what it takes. Personally, I would consider kvim for text areas... but I fully agree with what you're saying about using memory for Something Useful. > > So I find the most important thing that KDE can focus on, snappyness and > > system requirements. And stability off course. > > I would hope they focus on stability and features primarily. Hopefully by > making things more modular they can make it faster and more featureful > since if you don't use those features you won't take the speed hit. That's what they're currently doing. A kioslave that you don't run or a kpart you don't embed is one that doesn't get loaded into memory. Just look at OpenOffice.org... -- Frank Van Damme http://www.openstandaarden.be
