What next for the Xfce Project? [LWN.net]

What next for the Xfce Project?

Posted May 11, 2006 20:04 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786)
Parent article: What next for the Xfce Project?

If XFCE really wants to be lighter than Gnome, in addition
to having less dependencies, not using Nautilus, Evolution
nor Gnome Terminal, it should by default have the panel
applets as in-process. The per-process memory overhead
for a Gtk program is pretty large.

Regarding text editor, I think Leafpad looks quite nice.
It's as simple as the Windows Notepad and for a programmers'
text editor people will anyway using something else like
Scite, Gedit, Gvim, XEmacs etc.

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What next for the Xfce Project?

Posted May 11, 2006 21:15 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (guest, #24899) [Link]

> If XFCE really wants to be lighter than Gnome, [..] it should
> by default have the panel applets as in-process. The
> per-process memory overhead for a Gtk program is pretty large.

This is what is meant by internal and external plugins for the panel.
Internal plugins (considered stable and part of the Xfce core) runs in the same process as the panel.
External plugins runs in their own process, and cannot crash the panel if the plugin crashes. Creates overhead, correct, but increases the stability of the panel.

This is my understanding as someone following the dev-mailinglist but who is not a developer.