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[dE .]

On 10/18/11 01:23, Maximilien Noal wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 06:32 PM, dE . wrote:
>> On 10/17/11 12:24, Maximilien Noal wrote:
>>> On 10/17/2011 06:55 AM, dE . wrote:
>>>> On 10/16/11 16:06, Natanael Copa wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:58:54 +0530
>>>>> "dE ."<de.techno at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Even if tabs are implemented, what harm will it pose on users not in
>>>>>> favor of using tabs? Those who'll use will use it, those who won't,
>>>>>> won't use it.
>>>>> More (unused) code = bloat = needs more memory = things gets slower.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it could be implemented as a plugin it wouldn't make any
>>>>> "harm" (except consuming developer and support time)
>>>>>
>>>>> -nc
>>>> The main bottleneck is Developer support then, to maintain a large 
>>>> codebase; as I've stated before, it's time for xfce to become 
>>>> mainstream, more 'heavy' cause we already have a lighter DE -- LXDE 
>>>> which all distros are adopting instead of XFCE for a light weight 
>>>> distro (Lubuntu is 12th while Xubuntu is 26th on distrowatch), so 
>>>> the objectives of Xfce needs to change.
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>>> In my experience, LXDE is a little heavier than Xfce, and Xfce *is* 
>>> lightweight (which Xubuntu isn't, however)
>> I'm hearing this first time. I tend to thing there's no comparison 
>> between the 2, LXDE is way too low on resources, so low that it's 
>> preferred even on servers cause of it's negligible overhead and 
>> everyone seems to share a similar opinion. I being a former Xfce user 
>> confirm this.
>>
> "htop" results (I could have used ps_mem.py, but I was lazy) :
> -ArchLinux with LXDE (meta package containing ~15 packages) : uses 40 
> MB of RAM, 2%/3% CPU usage.
> -ArchLinux with Xfce (meta package containing ~15 packages) : uses 50 
> MB of RAM, 2%/3% CPU usage.
>
> My bad, my experience was from Lubuntu 10.04 vs Xubuntu 10.04, I 
> think. Anyway, the difference is only 10 MB, that's not very much.
>> Even on Gentoo, emerging Xfce with mininal useflag requires merging 
>> of 54 packages while merging of lxde requires 35 with less than half 
>> the download size.
>>
>> By this we can easily see the amount of source involved.
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>
I never got that much low memory usage with Xfce.