Re: [LAU] Gnome-shell | Unity

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:04:46 +0200
rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > rosea.grammostola wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/25/2011 06:36 PM, david wrote:
> >>
> >>> rosea grammostola wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So guys, just upgrade Gnome2 to Gnome3? ... Is it true that both
> >>>> Gnome-shell and Unity needs Pulseaudio?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I don't know about that. I know that Gnome3 uses 1GB of memory ...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Wow! Yeah, the points that made us proud of Linux slowly seems to
> >> fade away... :( These new Desktop developments doesn't seems to be
> >> good for Linuxaudio users at all...
> >>
> >
> > Hey, I'm the kind of guy who likes Fluxbox, so I'm not necessarily
> > a fan of these "new" desktop developments.
> >
> > There's a fork of KDE3, I forget the name, but it's being updated
> > regularly. If you prefer KDE3's comparative leanness, it's an
> > option.
> >
> >
> > Btw do you know what KDE4 uses? One dev told that it would be
> > lighter then
> >> KDE3 when KDE4 was released.
> >>
> >
> > I don't know how much KDE4 uses. I've heard (from the same online
> > source that supplied the Gnome3 mem usage figure) that KDE4 comes
> > in at less than that. How much less, I don't recall.
> >
> > A friend of mine that used KDE4 for awhile said that he thought it
> > was using less memory than KDE3. He tried LXDE but had stability
> > issues, so he's using XFCE. He says that when he does run a KDE4
> > app, he has a shell script he runs afterwards that kills 9 KDE4
> > system services it started up and left running upon exit. I believe
> > that what makes KDE4 not good for audio is its ton of background
> > system services, each one doing its thing at intervals and playing
> > hell with low latency setups. Especially the Akonadi (sp?) service
> > that indexes everything in your home folder and stores the index
> > results in a disk-hogging SQL database. The moment you modify a
> > file, the indexing service fires up and reindexes it. Or something
> > like that.
> >
> >
> > My
> >>
> >>> wife's new netbook has Ubuntu 11.04 on it, haven't noticed if
> >>> it's using PA or not, but sound works.
> >>>
> >> Ok, Ubuntu uses Unity. Do you know how Unity compares to
> >> Gnome-shell when it comes to system resources?
> >>
> >
> > I don't know. It uses Compiz for its visual effects, I don't know
> > what Gnome-shell uses.
> >
>
>
> It looks like XFCE will be the 'next Gnome2´ ... It looks better then
> in the past and it seems to be pretty comparable with Gnome2. It
> seems to be a possible to remove pulseaudio from Xubuntu. And of
> course you can install Fluxbox together with it (I prefer fluxbox
> also myself ;) )
>

so if this trend continues, lxde is what xfce used to be and it will
become like gnome 2 when xfce has moved on to gnome3...

I installed latest ubuntu some time ago on a laptop and was baffled...
what was so bad about gnome2 to have to change it completely to that
*thing*?

cheers
renato
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Received on Mon Jun 27 04:15:01 2011