Reply With QuoteA lot of Gnome stuff, probably. Ubuntu is notorious for loading a lot of unnecessary Gnome stuff in the background even when the user is just using KDE.Originally Posted by RealNC
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From what I saw, most problems with KDE is when people are using non-vanilla KDE (such in Ubuntu). For me, moving from Ubuntu to Arch was a real new quality.
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A lot of Gnome stuff, probably. Ubuntu is notorious for loading a lot of unnecessary Gnome stuff in the background even when the user is just using KDE.
Last edited by TheBlackCat; 10-10-2012 at 10:04 AM.
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My thoughts exactly. It is kind of worrisome that the maintainer of E17 doesn't seem to know the importance of caching, especially when using lots of SVGs.
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The two issues he mentioned against Gnome-Shell have been fixed in 3.6
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The E17 release manager needs to find something to do since releasing E17 is apparently impossible.
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Hold alt to turn the suspend menu into the menu option that allows for shutdown/restart/log off. I think I read that for 3.6 they were adding the power off menu back because they received to much negative hate over this, of which I was one. The no timeout on the status bar thing at the bottom of the screen is a real annoyance. Especially when you insert a flash drive and the open/eject dialog appears. The entire bottom fourth of the screen is on lock down until you pick one of the options. No dismiss button to be found. Ticks me off to no end when I'm required to pick one of those options when I don't want either. That fail whale dialog need abolished, too. It is practically a BSOD from windows.Downside here is that this was the only desktop environment from which I was unable to reboot my machine using a GUI. Second round of slow clapping for being the only desktop to create popups (seen at bottom) with no timeout.
KDE is way too slow for my tastes and the keverything drives me nuts. Yes, I know, Gnome does this to an extend too but not for everything. This is the same reason I despise Apple's naming scheme. iPhone, iPod, iPad, iPhail, iTunes, iCloud and iEverything.
I've tried LXDE, xfe and TWM but couldn't quite give up Gnome. Keep forgetting about E17. Need to put that on my to do list.
[edit] I take way too long to form replies when at work. There was only one reply when I started this reply. *sigh* Now 1/2 my post is redundant.
Last edited by Credomane; 10-10-2012 at 10:18 AM.
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Actually I also have 16GB RAM. This is right after boot:
http://bayimg.com/laDmkAAen
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No need to choose one of the actions, just click on the big whale border to dismiss the notification. It will be better in 3.6 probably.Hold alt to turn the suspend menu into the menu option that allows for shutdown/restart/log off. I think I read that for 3.6 they were adding the power off menu back because they received to much negative hate over this, of which I was one. The no timeout on the status bar thing at the bottom of the screen is a real annoyance. Especially when you insert a flash drive and the open/eject dialog appears. The entire bottom fourth of the screen is on lock down until you pick one of the options. No dismiss button to be found. Ticks me off to no end when I'm required to pick one of those options when I don't want either. That fail whale dialog need abolished, too. It is practically a BSOD from windows.
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still on kde
Considering how complete is a kde desktop, i think that 290MB (full, not just kde) is really a low value.
Startup time is slow, that's true, but (again), why complain?
Just hibernate/suspend to disk your machine.
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Well, actually, you're just counting the cache :P.
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