Andreas Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:35:06PM +0100, Thomas Meyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Double-clicking the gnome's mixer_applet2 opens the program >> gnome-volume-control which shows up in powertop with 15 wake-ups per >> second: > > You clearly haven't tried XFCE4 yet! > Awful, AWFUL, I tell ya... > (xfce4-mixer-plugin continuously uses up to 3% CPU, xfce4-menu-plugin > fully occupies the CPU at random but frequent times, and other plugins > are also bug-documented to use too much CPU, and this on a newish Atom) > > One has heard people complain after the XFCE3 -> 4 change about 4 being > bloatware, but now I finally can fully relate to that. > > I will abandon XFCE not tomorrow but rather today if possible (pekwm, > icewm or some such). >
now now this isnt' a list where it's appropriate to bash random pieces of open source software; the goal of this list is to identify and discuss power issues, with the goal of getting them fixed and getting Linux to behave better. If you have specific power complaints about xfce, or any other piece of open source software.. by all means lets bring them out. _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
