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This is a preemptive counterpostThis is a preemptive counterpostPosted Feb 17, 2005 17:35 UTC (Thu) by whitemice (guest, #3748)In reply to: This is a preemptive counterpost by b7j0c Parent article: The Lightweight experience:A comparison of Window Managers (Linux Times.Net)
In the end this is all silly. What percentage of the "heft" is the window manager? Answer: not much. And the minute you open a GNOME or KDE application you've tossed all your 'lightness' out the window because you've just invoked Kparts/Bonobo, and kioslaves, and gconfd, etc... You know, all that 'bloat' that allows things like cut-n-paste to actually work.
People - you're gaining very close to nothing by doing this unless you also also avoid all the decent/modern applications. Run whatever window manager you like, because you like it. The lightweight argument is crap.
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Copy+paste has never been bloat Posted Feb 17, 2005 18:47 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027) [Link] all that 'bloat' that allows things like cut-n-paste to actually workCut/copy/paste works just fine using the X11 server directly, without any bloat at all. I've put it in applications whose entire size is 52KB and use only libX11 and libc.
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