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Clutter

Posted Nov 10, 2009 10:37 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Clutter by ncm
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 in September 2010

Nautilus takes up 50M.

Sounds you really want to use a different DE. I have been using XFCE instead of KDE for a while now, and find it quite sufficient for the general tasks I expect of a desktop. Some parts of the UI are not as nice as in KDE, but that is offset by a better general responsiveness and a lightning-fast startup compared to KDE.

One could argue that a small footprint is essential for a good DE. Its job is after all to facilitate using the real applications, and it must not get into the user's way, which is what it is doing, if the internal operations of the DE start causing any perceptible delays.

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Clutter

Posted Nov 10, 2009 16:57 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

> Nautilus takes up 50M.

Actually it sounds like he does not know how to properly gauge memory usage.

My Nautilus has a 76M Virtual Memory reserved. However the amount of memory
it is actually using is 25M. Out of that 15M is shared with other Gnome
applications. It uses about 4MB of X memory.

So Resident Memory - Shared Memory + X Memory = Actual Memory usage required
to run Nautilus. Which is just about 14 - 15 MB. That is how much I would
save if I killed Nautilus off.

It's a big application, but not a huge deal.

Clutter

Posted Nov 10, 2009 18:30 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

If you all would have actually read his comment, he says that he is saving 50M of disk space by not having it installed, not RAM by running it.

Clutter

Posted Nov 10, 2009 19:35 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well sorry.

But that makes even less sense. Why care how much disk space it uses? 50
megs is insignificant.