On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that > > all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into > > memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic > > collection of unrelated apps, they all draw in different libraries and > > memory usage goes up. > > With this in mind, would running a (few) GTK apps on KDE make a large > difference? For instance, I am quite fond of Gaim, and even if I were > to try KDE, I wouldn't want to give it up (though I heard Kopette is > comparably capable).
I'm using Gaim because it is lighter, but Kopete can do more (e.g. voicecalls with Gmail). Once I have loaded Kmail or any other KDE base application then the added load of Kopete is not that much. In any case, running Gaim ontop of KDE is more or less imperceptible. -- Regards, Mick
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