On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Derek Smithies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I had thought all window managers (and windows too) are a means of > displaying more > information on the display. - not just ssh sessions. Roll on the day when > there is a morse coded > report of slashdot along the titlebar. > > The question I have - is why are window managers so "bloated"? If you take > an older release > (ubuntu 10.04 say) and put it on a machine which was running the latest > ubuntu (11.10) the > graphics are much much much faster. New windows are created in an > imperceptible short period of time. > > Whereas - "seconds" pass by to construct a new window with the latest > ubuntu. > > To get really snappy graphical response - you go back to (say) redhat 9. Me > thinks/wonders if the > last 10 years of gui development have just been a cleverly worked disguise > to get us to buy > bigger/faster machines.
yeah and to think we used to claim that this was the conspiracy between MS and the manufacturers... _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
