"Harry Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > 1) Gnome and KDE make use of a rather large stack of runtime > libraries that remain resident. If you are running a Gnome desktop > and start up a KDE application, the first thing that happens is the > stack of libraries for KDE loads up into the system and remain > resident until you restart the X server. This requires a significant > amount of resources. Same thing if you are running KDE and start up > a Gnome application.
Not only resources, but also time. If your hardware is anything but bleeding edge, the loading of all these libraries will take quite a lot of time, so even if the app is just a minimal CD player or so, it will be slow to load. /Rasmus -- [email protected] mailing list
