Bob Hunter wrote: > My reply would still be, that applications are meant > to be used by people, rather than a toy for > developers. The mozilla organisation managed to keep > the old, big and slow application, but also managed to > split the core components into individual > applications, which are much lighter, faster, and now > popular, so popular that IE and Outlook are a thing of > the past on many desktops. As a result, the monolitic > mozilla was improved too. Concerning Office, we have a > good word processor (AbiWord), a good graphical editor > (gimp), we are flooded with database managers, but we > are starving for a state-of-the-art spreadsheet. I do > not understand OOo's oriental philosophy about making > one with everything, but I hope it will be small, or > you will get lost in it.
It's interesting that so many people fall in the marketing trap. Firefox and Thunderbird are not really lighter than the Seamonkey suite, it's only the GUI that has been stripped down a lot. This GUI stripping is the main reason why Firefox starts and works considerably faster than Seamonkey. Mozilla wasn't so monolithic as described, otherwise the process of separating the new apps would have taken much longer. The new Seamonkey crew will deliver future builds based on the common core code delivered by the Mozilla project, but with the Seamonkey GUI that "bundles" the functionality of both apps in one GUI while FF and TB provide more or less the same functionality in two separate apps, but using the same code base. That doesn't sound very monolithic to me. Don't mix up GUI or code cleanups with the organisation of applications into one or more processes. For more information about this I refer to my other mail in this thread. BTW: I'm a pleased Firefox and Thunder user and I prefer them over the Seamonkey suite, but not because they have separate processes but because I like their GUI better. I'm pretty sure that a lot of people wouldn't recognize if both apps shared the same process as long as the GUI looks like they have separated apps. Moreover I would still like to have the option to run both apps in one process because at home I have a computer with "only" 330 MB of RAM and Firefox+Thunderbird as separate processes consume much more memory than a potential united FF+TB process. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
