<quote who="Karl Clements">
> 2k ran better on this than slack8 with kde, although that was easy fixed
> with a change of wm
Remember that KDE is a complete desktop environment, which includes a window
manager.
> X is good, but it could be better look at the size of it its bloated
Well, looking at the size of X running on... This IBM watch, and this Compaq
iPaq, and this Sharp Zaurus, and this Agenda Computing Agenda...
X is not bloated. Where are you getting this idea?
> Konqueror was slower to start than ie, kmail well I ditched that after
> importing my old oe mail because it was slow as well, my system was
> sitting at roughly 75% memory usage with kde, it now sits alot lower with
> fluxbox, Konqueror as a file browser was painful.
Perhaps you're misunderstanding how Linux/*nix reports memory usage. I've
posted information about this a number of times, and I remember Andrew
posting a good one too. Please look through the archives.
> In addition to the previously mentioned problems i haven't found a decent
> browser for X as yet, i compiled mozilla it didn't install to where i told
> it to, i compiled skipstone once it was installed it didn't run at all
> (gtkmozembed error) opera was dodgey, netscape was hella slow.
Galeon and Mozilla are tops. Konqueror has a great rep, though I haven't
used it a hell of a lot as a browser.
> the fact that it takes about half as much time to open ie on a 250mhz
> machine than it does mozilla on a 300 with more ram leads me to think
> there is room for improvement.
Remember that most of IE is already loaded and ready to go; Mozilla has to
load far more than IE upon invokation. If you using the Mozilla turbo
system, it loads up Mozilla, and simply bounces up new windows as you need
them (the performance is the same as if you just opened a new window within
an existing Mozilla process).
- Jeff
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