Will using KDE programs use too much system resources?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 23:38:42 CEST 2006


On 4/29/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gaim uses GTK+, just like Xfce, so loading it does not introduce a new
> library.  (I can't speak for any other that it may use, but all told,
> it's likely better on resources in Xfce.)

Ah, great!

> I'm fairly sure that gedit 2.14 does this, using gnome-vfs.  Of
> course, you may not want to use that since it's GNOME, but I've been
> using for about a year in Xfce with good things to say.  (Don't kill
> me, Erik.)

So being Gnome it won't save me anything over using Kate?

> Also, having used GNOME on my laptop, I'm fairly sure that if you
> connect to a SSH server in Nautilus and open a file therefrom (in
> gedit, at least), you're working with it directly on the server.  I
> think. ;)

Well, it is stored in a temp file on the local machine. But as far as
the end user is concerned, it doesn't make a difference!

Thank you.

Dotan
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