Switching to Gnome from KDE

[Constantine Evans]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> I know. I'm madly in love with her, and I'll be hard to give her up. I
> thought that _maybe_ Gnome has something similar.
> 

As I mentioned in another email, Gnome has GVim, if you like vim.

> 
> Both are installed. My four-year-old box cannot handle the heavy loads
> of having libraries from both desktops open at the same time. So as
> long as I don't open F-Spot I'm fine. But the minute I open it, so
> many Gnome things get loaded that the box can't cope.
> 
> Truth is, if it weren't for F-Spot, I wouldn't even consider
> switching. However, F-Spot is such a great app, that I won't give it
> up, either.

It sounds like you don't have enough RAM, since F-Spot uses quite a bit 
of memory. Have you considered buying more RAM to put in the machine? 
You can buy 512 MB new for around $50 for most types of RAM, and for 
older types, I'm sure there are a variety of people who would be happy 
to give you some.

Also, I'd be interested in knowing your experiences with F-Spot. Are you 
  using it for a large number of images? I've been considering using it 
to organise my ~50GB of photographs that are in a mix of Nikon RAW and 
JPEG, interspersed with processed versions of the RAW files in 16-bit 
TIFFs. In my tests of it, it seems to work quite well with JPEGs, but it 
doesn't seem to allow one to edit the files with whatever editors one 
wants (I need to use ufraw, and cinepaint for the 16 bit tiffs).

Constantine