On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:07:12 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:09 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:33:57 -0400 > > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:51 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > > > XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are > > > > based on > > > > GTK, won't Gnome be equally fast? What is it that makes XFCE faster than > > > > Gnome? > > > > > > Try it. Experience it. You can easily install it and try it, without > > > losing anything. > > > > > > Main reason it doesn't have the "configuration" daemons or backend > > > components that require resources. It does have some stuff. > > > > > > It also removes features, which is misguided. XFCE has everything I want > > > and then some. > > XFCE is my default desktop now. Proudly. It works with all the bell, > buttons, widgets, function, window behavior, effects... I want. > > > Which removes features, which is misguided? > > GNOME. Case goes like this. Peep likes to use feature X in GNOME. > Discovers a bug in feature X, files a bug against it. GNOME team(s) look > at it, ponder and ask for guidance from the Mighty Jeff Waugh, who then > consults in a dark and cryptic language called "sane defaults and user > don't know what they need". They then pronounce feature X is deprecated > and no longer supported in GNOME, except by another crypotic program > called "gconf-tool". I didn't get your point because I thought you were relating feature subtraction to performance, and I therefore thought that you meant that Xfce was removing features ... > This is just an example and might possibly be embellished by the > explaining individual (me). Just look and make a call for yourself. > > > I think I'm misguided :). > > Using GNOME? Yes, yes you are. No, no, you're misguided about what I use; I'm a proud Xfce user, and I've never really used GNOME or KDE. > greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
