Re: Gnome

[Kevin Forge <forgeltd@usa.net>]

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.