Paul Johnson wrote:
During the past weekend, when the problem with evolution-data-server
and gnome-panel existed, I could not get the gnome clock-applet to
run.
<...>
Now the gnome clock is back, and just for fun I compared the cost of
the clocks. If I'm reading this ps output correctly, the gnome
clock-applet uses almost 1% of 1gig system memory and it uses 9x as
much as the wmCalClock or wmclock. Am I reading this right?
Well you've answered your own query.
The reason the gnome-clock-applet is so bloated, is because it hooks
into evolution-data-server libecal.
Frankly, if it wasn't for Beagle and the clock, I wouldn't have anything
to do with Evolution on this system - I'd much prefer it that way.
I don't use Evolution - I don't want Evolution - but I have to install
it for it's dependants.
Both Evolution and Beagle come from Novell, so I can understand why the
two are linked, but it's about time that we found some way of replacing
some of the bloated dependencies for a lot of Fedora components (extras
or otherwise), either by isolating and modularising those components
(i.e. libecal) or replacing them with alternatives.
-
K.
