[LAU] Switching the distro

[david]

Simon Wise wrote:
> 
>> That's just eye candy, some of which KDE does better. But Gnome3 for 
>> handhelds?
>> Not with it consuming a gig of RAM.
> 
> I assume that it wouldn't, that would be the whole point.

But Gnome3 does consume a gig of RAM. I don't really know why. It's not 
launching a ton of background server processes like KDE4 does.

> The 
> description seems very stripped back, and assumes the user is 
> interfacing via touch, so does uses only one mouse button etc etc.

Touch interface is good for some things. Not useful for all things (for 
example, there is no way to "hover" over anything using a touch 
interface). I don't think that an interface that's good for one will be 
good of the other.

Personally, I think that the desktop Linux GUIs are way too late to the 
mobile game. Android is the *Nix standard bearer in that field.

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David
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