Switching to Gnome from KDE

[Dotan Cohen]

On 12/10/06, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My goal is to reduce the load on this machine, and with all the KDE
> > libraries that Kate must load it is not quite viable.
>
> You might try xfce (aka Xubuntu) as an alternate. My primary system is
> a 1998 PowerBook G3 Series running at 266 Mhz, and I've been fine
> running KDE and Gnome apps on it under xfce.

I've had problems getting Sticky Keys working under xfce. Apparently X
supports it directly, so the xcfe developers have ignored it. And I'm
no Xpert- even with the help of the X mailing list and the xfce
mailing list I was unable to get Sticky Key working. I should note
that I have a broken thumb and very much need that feature.

Also, the wife uses the machine and as well as she's taken to KDE, I
don't want to introduce her to something too foriegn, or complicated.

> I doubt that it's the strain of the KDE and Gnome libraries that's the
> problem -- I would suspect some particular application that's dragging
> your system down. For example, the main reason I DON'T use Gnome on my
> slowest machine is Nautilus is just too "heavy" -- it's constantly
> doing stuff behind the scenes that I just don't need. In that one way,
> KDE is lighter than Gnome, and xfce is much lighter than either.

I should do some benchmarking.

> But I'm not running something like F-Spot on it, either -- I'm
> managing my graphics files more "manually" using carefully named
> directories. So your requirements are obviously very different.

F-Spot is heavy.

Dotan Cohen

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