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philtesone
10-08-2005, 02:47 PM
Just a general question. . .
I've been using Gnome 2.10 and have gotten quite used to it, however, when I recenty returned to KDE I noticed how much snapier and quicker things loaded and was wondering WHY?
Now I have tried quite a number of other WM's like blackbox, fluxbox, fcewm, icewm, enlightenment, etc and could very well get used to one of those. . .
Is it because KDE uses QT and Gnome uses GTK ?
What's QT got that GTK don't got?
And what about these other WM's, what do they use? They seem to be lightning fast!
Anyone???
sasKuatch
10-08-2005, 04:11 PM
I haven't noticed anything to be "faster" really. If you just log into a different WM it might be faster right then because nothing is loaded yet (and eating memory and cpu). As for *box, wmaker, fcewm, et al, they're faster for the pure reason that they're smaller.
Rob
neither one is a WM... they are Desktop Environments... the Gnome Window Manager == Metacity, and the KDE Window Manager == Kwin (or something like that)
Qt and Gtk are for toolkits for drawing widgets (drop down lists, scroll bars, etc), not really for drawing the Window Borders.
the reason KDE or Gnome would possibly use more resources (and the reason that they are DEs and not WMs) than the WM-only solutions like Fluxbox, etc. is because they have daemons running for application integration, panels running, applets running, etc...
not sure what specifically you were comparing with speed on Gnome vs. KDE... possibly application load times? KDE load times can be improved by prelinking and apparently this does not speed up Gnome app load times... other than that, I find Gtk based apps to be more responsive on any box I have ever installed both of those DEs on... again - that is purely based on personal "feeling" -- I have not done any sort of benchmarking.
philtesone
10-08-2005, 08:46 PM
yea I was talking about application load times mainly I guess I should have stated. . .
even when bringing up nautilus or konqueror, it seemed that konqueror came up much quicker, but this is after using the OS for a couple of months that I noticed this. . .After a fresh install, Gnome seems to work way "snapier" and as time goes on, it seems, it starts to slow down and things start to become a bit more sluggish: more hardrive clicking and less responsive. . .Not un-usable, just sluggish. . .
I noticed this when using Gnome, not just in Debian Sarge, but in Ubuntu and Mepis as well. . .
-Thanx for clearing up the DE and WM, Hayl :)
KDE is not faster than GNOME.
janet loves bill
10-09-2005, 12:00 AM
I know this.........KDE on my LFS 6.1 box is faster than KDE on Slackware 10.2.........maybe because LFS was optimized to be leaner and not a bunch of extra bloat........
XiaoKJ
10-09-2005, 04:07 AM
I'd personally not compare them in terms of speed....
but the difference seems minimal since both are slow...