On Monday 30 October 2006 10:38, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I installed Xfce to see how badly you pay for those extra tens of MB, it > If you're using KDE apps in XFCE then you've gained nothing by > switching to the lighter desktop. The KDE apps depend on KDE libraries > that will get loaded in XFCE as well. It's true that the KDE libs are pulled in of course, but not that there is nothing to be gained from not use the KDE DE: ''... 6. Web browser A very common usage case :). In addition a web browser is launched, showing a random WWW site, specifically http://dot.kde.org ;). Browsers used were KDE's Konqueror, GNOME's Epiphany and Firefox 1.0.6. To show how applications work when not in their native desktop I measured all of them in all desktops: Desktop + browser Usage Diff KDE + Konqueror 95.3 (83.8) 9.5 (11.5) KDE + Firefox 108.0 (90.4) 22.2 (18.1) KDE + Epiphany 112.5 (91.5) 26.7 (19.2) GNOME + Epiphany 127.7 (114.6) 17.3 (11.6) GNOME + Firefox 133.6 (118.8) 23.2 (15.8) GNOME + Konqueror 136.5 (113.3) 26.1 (10.3) Xfce + Firefox 80.2 (73.2) 21.2 (12.2) Xfce + Epiphany 82.6 (72.4) 24.3 (11.4) Xfce + Konqueror 84.4 (71.6) 26.1 (10.6) WMaker + Firefox 69.9 (65.9) 18.5 (6.2) WMaker + Epiphany 74.3 (65.9) 22.9 (6.2) WMaker + Konqueror 80.2 (65.1) 28.8 (5.4) ...'' http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/ Point being: Gnome DE running Konqueror: 136MB KDE DE running Konqueror: 95MB Xfce DE running Konqueror: 84MB -Andy
