> Now, the question I have is why we would chose GNOME over XFCE. I think > there are significant differences in system resource consumption.
I don't believe the decision has been made yet. > I ask because the impression I had from informal tests was that a system > booting into GNOME was consuming about 3x as much RAM on boot (read via > ps_mem.py). My impression was that the benefit was not eaten up the > moment the I started running GTK applications; it seemed that under XFCE > I could open a fair number more Firefox tabs without running into lockup > than under GNOME. I know these aren't great metrics so I'll run some > more rigorous tests after we have two systems side-by-side for > comparison. > > Even though XFCE is not a Fedora-supported desktop environment, it is > readily supported in other distributions. We could easily borrow the > polish that XUbuntu has applied to its distribution and get a system > equally usable as GNOME. I don't believe that is true at all. I believe XFCE is an install option during a full install and there's a fully Fedora blessed XFCE spin available from Fedora here http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ . It is certainly not the main desktop they support but it is no less supported than any other desktop. I think the XFCE SIG (Special Interest Group would somewhat disagree https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Xfce Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
