Fluxbox

[Art Alexion]

On Monday 20 October 2008 11:06:10 am Neil Winchurst wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
> > Thunar is the default for xfce as well.  It doesn't do network
> > browsing.  IMO, it is among the things that make xubuntu a poor
> > choice.  To do a lot of things in xfce, you need to run the gnome
> > stuff that is installed in xubuntu.  If you going to run gnome under
> > xfce, why not just run gnome.
>
> Yes, I realise that thunar does not do network browsing. In KDE I use
> Konqueror as my file manager. I know that konqueror is also a web
> browser but I never use it for that. And, of course, in fluxbox I can
> use konqueror if I want to. And I never use Gnome at all.

Neil, I am not sure what you are doing, but for what it's worth:

People generally choose the lighter WMs to preserve resources taken up by the 
bigger environments like Gnome and KDE.  But if you run a KDE app, like 
Konqueror, under xfce or fluxbox, it loads the KDE libs in order to function.  
So now, you are not only using the substantial resources that KDE alone uses, 
but you are using them on top of the smaller, but still significant, fluxbox 
resources.

Now there are gnome programs that load gnome libs, and GTK programs that only 
load gtk+ libs.  I am not sure about KDE, but I assume that qt programs (as 
opposed to full blown KDE programs) only load qt libs.

So, if you are going to run gnome, or KDE, apps regularly, you are better off 
running them under gnome or KDE than running them under Fluxbox.  If you only 
run them rarely, that's another story.


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