Amarok 2.5 released [LWN.net]

Amarok 2.5 released

Posted Dec 22, 2011 20:34 UTC (Thu) by freggy (guest, #37477)
In reply to: Amarok 2.5 released by Del-
Parent article: Amarok 2.5 released

with 1GB systems it is a show stopper, but frankly, 1GB is not enough for Gnome these days either.

I beg to differ. I run GNOME 2.32 on a 1GB netbook (with some zram swap) and this works perfectly fine. OK, if I start LibreOffice, Firefox with 10 open tabs and Evolution at the same time, it will start swapping heavily, but if you don't exaggerate in multitasking, it's definitely not slow.

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Amarok 2.5 released

Posted Dec 22, 2011 21:17 UTC (Thu) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]

Let me see if I get this right. You religiously stick to GTK apps and the old Gnome release stripped down. Even then with office-app, web-browser and mail-client running your are out of memory. I rest my case.

Amarok 2.5 released

Posted Dec 22, 2011 21:47 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Neither Firefox nor Openoffice.org are really GTK apps. That kinda invalidates your argument quite a bit.

Amarok 2.5 released

Posted Dec 22, 2011 22:05 UTC (Thu) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]

Care to elaborate on gui tool-kits used for LibreOffice and Firefox?

Amarok 2.5 released

Posted Dec 22, 2011 22:48 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Sure. Libreoffice uses VCL, or Visual Components Library with native desktop integration and has both GTK and Qt frontends. Firefox uses XUL with GTK integration. Neither are pure GTK apps and have occasional regressions on look and feel that doesn't match the rest of the GTK apps as a result.