While I agree that memory usage for GNOME application is typically higher than that for CDE, when I run prstat -srss on almost any Sun Ray within our organization, the top memory users by far are staroffice, firefox, the Xserver and acroread. Trimming a few meg off nautilus,metacity and gnome-panel is worthwhile and fixing leaks to the X server is especially important. But if you really want the typical memory footprint of CDE back in the Solaris 7 days, you'd trim much more bloat by replacing firefox with mosaic and going back to and older soffice and acroread. I don't think anyone wants that.
Nokia, OLPC and similar embedded users of gnome components have requirements more closely aligned with Sun's ultathin client customers so more people are looking at memory footprint. (I've been tracking it build to build) Firefox 3.0s memory footprint looks like it will be significantly smaller and those of us running Gnome 2.20 on Sun Ray instead of Gnome 2.6 (same hardware) do it to "fly our own airplanes", but we also do it because it seems to have better performance. Still, I agree that "bells and whistles" eye candy Gnome will have to diverge from thin-client Gnome, especially now that alpha blending and other 3D graphics card features are being utilized. Bob Doolittle wrote: > Brian Cameron wrote: > >> Probably the most significant complaints I hear from people migrating >> from CDE to GNOME are the fact that we don't have a standalone >> calendar program and session management (the ability to save you >> workspace and have it start-up as you left it) doesn't work so well >> in GNOME. >> > > I feel I must comment here. Many Sun Ray > customers have complained about the footprint and > performance of Gnome, particularly when using > Composite and Transparency types of features, > which seemingly are becoming more and more > prevalent and ingrained with Gnome over time. > These issues are magnified when many users share a > system. A lightweight alternative desktop would > be of great interest to the Sun Ray community. > I agree that CDE clearly isn't it, however, due to > dated technology and legal encumbrances. > > -Bob > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
