19 Feb
2006
19 Feb
'06
6:53 p.m.
The "processing overhead" of one desktop
environment vs. another is
negligible on a modern system.
a minimal de like fluxbox/pek written in raw xlib has much less overhead. WinXP properly
trimmed also has much less overhead than either Gnome or KDE, as evidenced in how fast it
can zip along on a Celeron 500 whereas Gnome or KDE are both unusable slow due to
intractible 'lag' for basic operations like window/tab switching, app-launching,
etc. kde/gnomelibs->gtk/qt->xlib->xserver->videodriver where windows is just
explorer.exe->GDI++ or something..
the 'pulsing' of amarok's 'currently playing' highlight or flickering
meters in echomixer are enough to chew 27% of the CPU on my 2ghz a64's - imo this is
pretty bad, hopefully some GL replacement for X that is robust enough that it doesnt
require 3 layers of libs plus a scripting language binding on top to easily build usable
apps..along with drivers that dont suck..can hopefully save me from wanting to install XP
or OSX almost every other day..
On a correctly set up system with
properly written RT apps the desktop won't be able to interfere with the
RT stuff anyway.
yep, i can cause dropouts just as easy with fluxbox as kwin, so i use kwin, since easy
right-click options to disable borders or enable default geometry is preferable to editing
random dubiously formatted textfiles strewn across /etc/ and ~/.de/blah