[Fwd: Re: Switching Window Managers --- follow up]

[Le grand pinguin]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:02:09PM +0200, Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, slimboyfatboyslim wrote:
> 
> > I really like ubuntu but I'm not a big fan of gnome, to be more precise, 
> > I don't really want to run either KDE, gnome or xfce, I just want to 
> > have enlightment
> 
> gnome is not a window manager. There /is/ a gnome window manager, but
> gnome is primarily a widget set - a bunch of libraries to make
> programming applications easier.

No, that would be Gtk. Gnome is a "desktop environment" (using the
Gtk framework). Gnome provides services that enable different programs
to interact with each other (session management, central configuration
management, inter-application communication etc.). Gnome needs to interact
with the window manager (but uses a fairly common standard), so there
are more Gnome-friendly WMs.

> ditto kde.

Dito not. KDE (DE stands for Desktop Environment :) is similar to
Gnome (both also provide a set of "core" applications). KDE uses
the QT widget set/framework.

> Developers usually choose one or the other. Some use qt.
> 
> ldd $(which enlightenment)
> 
> will tell you which set enlightenment uses. 

I think it's neither (at least that was the case when i last looked
at it).

> the command will list
> all the shared libraries it needs - you can usually tell by the
> names which flavour they are. It is probably gnome.
> 
> If one generally sticks to one flavour, memory usage is less overall,
> because for all the apps loaded that need one shared library, the
> library is only used once.
> 
> If you have plenty of RAM, who cares ?

Will there ever be enough RAM for the masses (heck, my graphic card
has more memory than my first computer had harddisk space :-/

 Cheers RalfD

> Cheers,    Andy!
> 
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