xfce4-panel & memory cunsumption

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Kresimir Spes wrote:
> Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:04:16 +0200 - Kresimir Spes <kreso at cateia.com>
>> wrote :
>>
>>   
>>> fbpanel does take 2 mb's, but it has a few icons, a clock, pager and
>>> taskbar. but once again, I was using fbpanel as an example.
>>>     
>>
>>   You are not reading, fbpanel in its last version use GTK+ 2.0 and
>> therefore takes more than just 2MB.
>>   
> I have the latest fbpanel installed, it takes 3.0 MB, but once, again, that's 
> not the point.

It is the point. I hardly understand how fbpanel using gtk+ could use so
much less memory than the simplest hello world... Especially when I just
 get such different results.

The point being can we save a few megs without sacrifying functionality.
I doubt it.


>>   Xfce4-panel is very flexible, and fbpanel is just a joke compared to
>> it.
>>   
> I just added the memory consumptions of the panel + a few basic plugins, it 
> takes 34 MB's of memory, flexible or not, that's just too much for a panel (IMHO 
> ofcourse)

Of course you can replace the xfce panel with fbpanel if that fits your
needs better.

But I don't see what you describe here. Of course, you don't have to
believe me, so you'll find a screenshot here:

http://www.xfce.org/~olivier/misc/gnome-system-monitor.png

For me, it seems to show that the xfce panel alone uses slightly less
than fbpanel and gnome-panel. And if you stackup up the plugins in gnome
panel (trash, mixer, wnck), it's a bit more than xfce4 panel and its
plugins. Even fbpanel alone is more than xfce4-panel...

Cheers,
Olivier.
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