Peter Tribble wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM, John Martin<John.M.Martin at sun.com> wrote: >> Anon Y Mous wrote: >>> I hate running GNOME in OpenSolaris on old hardware anyway. It uses up a >>> lot of RAM and system resources if you don't have something powerful like a >>> monster Nvidia card with it's own GPU and 1/4 to 1/2 of a gig of RAM to >>> power it. ... >> In parallel with investigating a light weight CDE replacement >> we should also track issues with GNOME not performing well >> on modestly configured systems. I test GNOME+compiz on >> a 2GB W2100z + 64MB Quadro NVS 280 and while it isn't >> zippy it isn't painful either. > > I would concur. Once you've got into GNOME it's not too bad. > But am I the only one to think that's really not good enough? > After all, I remember a SPARCstation 2, and that *was* zippy. > I, for one, want that zip back.
The funny thing about light-weight environments is that as their userbase increases, so does their feature set, and inevitably people wish for the 'good old days'. Rather then abandoning GNOME, I think the right answer is to find ways ways to improve it, as inevitably, when current 'light-weight' solutions began adding the extensive accessibility, internationalization, and other that GNOME has (and is required in many cases) you will inevitably lose some of that 'zip'. And I say this as a user of GNOME since 1.4.x (or earlier; been too long to remember).... Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
