On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 01:31:12PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > How did you go with this? Did you have any luck? I also realised > > that if you drop gnome-user-share you'll drop all the httpd > > requirements. > > Yep, it worked! I had RPM conflicts in GConf2 (against GConf2-dbus, > both ship the same .mo files) and evince (against sugar-evince, both > ship the same evince backend shared libraries). Also, it turns out > that evince-dvi is responsible for bringing in texlive, via kpathsea. > > Here's the command I'm using now: > > -bash-3.2# yum -y install NetworkManager-gnome alacarte at-spi bug-buddy > control-center eog file-roller gcalctool gdm gdm-user-switch-applet > gedit gnome-applets gnome-audio gnome-backgrounds gnome-media > gnome-panel gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-session > gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-user-docs gnome-utils > gok gthumb gucharmap gvfs-archive gvfs-fuse gvfs-gphoto2 gvfs-smb > libcanberra-gtk2 metacity mousetweaks nautilus orca > pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-x11 > scim-bridge-gtk xdg-user-dirs-gtk yelp zenity > > Total size: 152 M > > After that completes, you can put "exec gnome-session" in ~/.xsession > and restart X to land in a very normal looking F10 GNOME desktop. > (I haven't tried to do much with it yet. Sound works, at least.) > > Thanks! > > - Chris.
Sweet. Now, the question I have is why we would chose GNOME over XFCE. I think there are significant differences in system resource consumption. I ask because the impression I had from informal tests was that a system booting into GNOME was consuming about 3x as much RAM on boot (read via ps_mem.py). My impression was that the benefit was not eaten up the moment the I started running GTK applications; it seemed that under XFCE I could open a fair number more Firefox tabs without running into lockup than under GNOME. I know these aren't great metrics so I'll run some more rigorous tests after we have two systems side-by-side for comparison. Even though XFCE is not a Fedora-supported desktop environment, it is readily supported in other distributions. We could easily borrow the polish that XUbuntu has applied to its distribution and get a system equally usable as GNOME. Erik _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel