Re: Gnome

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

> 
> jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Birger Langkjer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is it fast? That's my main problem with KDE.
> > >
> > 
> > Is it slow due to memory use (you hear the disk paging) or due to CPU
> > power?  I have found that on slow boxes (read a P75) movement of
> > windows tends to lag behind.  Atonishibgly opaque move is a lot faster
> > than KDE's transparent move so turn it on.
> > 
> > > Depends on how much hardware you throw at it ... (-;
> > >
> > 
> > On the PII 400 I have at work it flies :-)
> > 
> > > Seriously, enlightenment is a pig ( worse than kwm ).
> > >
> > 
> > Enlightenment 0.15 autotunes according the speed of box.  It is not
> > too big but if you begin to get fancy with backgrounds and icons then
> > it will eat memory.   Gnome is a bit slow on P75s (remove animations).
> 
> Somehow E dose not run for me.  Sometimes it dumps core and sometimes 
> it just doesn't load at all.  However running Gnome with sume other nune
> compliant WM it looks OK and lots of stuff work regardless.  The whole
> package is almost ready for 1.0.  I'll go check out E's site to find 
> out could be causing it to implode on my machine.
> 

It runs well on me but a) I have no other themes that the ones
provided with 0.15, some themes in e.themes.org crashed 0.14 b) I
removed every doftfile coming of previous installations c) I am
running E 0.15

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