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bloat?bloat?Posted Feb 22, 2007 0:12 UTC (Thu) by cantsin (guest, #4420)In reply to: bloat? by rfunk Parent article: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) This is not surprising since konqueror and kmail consume only a fraction of the memory of Firefox and Thunderbird, even with the entire KDE subsystem loaded. The Mozilla framework is to blamed for the higher memory footprint in your scenario, not XFCE. A better comparison might have been Sylpheed + a hypothetical GTK-only web browser.
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bloat? Posted Feb 22, 2007 0:31 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] You're right that is isn't XFCE's fault specifically, but it's KDE's advantage to have ahigh-quality mail client and web browser that don't add much memory use to the system. I used to use Sylpheed. Not bad for a simple graphical mail client, but both Kmail and Thunderbird blow it out of the water. I have no desire to go back there. Your use of "hypothetical" helps make my point as well. Since there isn't such a thing that doesn't depend on either Gnome libraries or Mozilla framework (RIP Galeon 1.2), I take what I can get (for similar functionality). What I can get results in no memory gain over KDE. Granted, as far as XFCE itself goes, it is impressive at giving functionality equivalent to KDE at a lower memory cost. But I need a high-quality mail client and browser running. The only way to get that in XFCE is to add either the Mozilla framework, the KDE libraries, or the Gnome libraries, with no net memory reduction compared to an all-KDE environment. Of course, if I used Firefox rather than Konqueror as my browser in KDE, the story would be different.
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