On the nature of bloat
On the nature of bloat
Posted May 24, 2005 2:40 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137)In reply to: On the nature of bloat by njhurst
Parent article: What the Linux Desktop Needs (OS Views)
We want a 'thick' gui that encapsulates much of the interaction, and then convince people to spend some serious time optimising things.
Who is "we?"
Speaking for myself, I would rather have a thinner GUI toolkit than what is commonly used nowdays, and let people make their own decisions as to its suitability for their particular needs.
I find it odd that it takes 10 seconds to start a web browser on my 3 GHz system with 1 Gb of RAM. If it took that long for a program to start 15 years ago, I would have thought that DOS had crashed...