On Thursday 08 February 2007, BandiPat wrote: > agree with Eberhard on Xfce! I always had it installed as a backup to > KDE rather than use Gnome. It's quite configurable and very fast. KDE > programs run fine in it and as far as I can tell you don't lose any > functionality using it.
You don't lose any functionality, but the minute you launch any kde app you pay almost the full price for using kde, because it has to launch all of the stuff kde wants to run. If you don't believe it, just launch any kde app from a shell in xfce, while watching memory usage. You don't gain it all back when the app shuts down either. For light weight machines, I run xfce but find substitutes for the kde apps when possible. If you stick with the Xfce browser, and a light weight mail client and something like abiword you have a pretty functional and fast machine. If I had to add anything it would probably be OOO, even though it is not particularly light weight, it can be set to completely shut down when you are done with it. Since I never use desktop icons, I can't answer the OP's question. KDE could take a lesson from the network browser that Xfce has. Its pretty cool, and does not require the lisa daemon to be functional. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
