KDE (was RE: [geeks] IRC)

[Chad A. Chance]

If it take more than 60 seconds to load then it must be bloated, and it
really does take longer than a minute to load. Of course I'm not on a real
recent machine(dual SM61 SS20) so some of that is expected. All the
dependencies drive me insane, it's almost like dll hell.

The preview release that SUN has up refuses to work on my box at all, so I
am refering to the version that I cobbled togethor, of which I don't know
the version number and to lazy to find out right now. Actually looking back
over my quoted e-mail down there, I really didn't mean to emphasize the
bloated part like that, that should have been switched with the unstable
part...

Until I get an Ultra class machine and/or Gnome becomes official, I think I
will go back to Afterstep. I don't really need all that fancy stuff anyways,
the only reason I started investigating other window managers is because it
looks like SUN is going to drop OpenWindows. OW was all I used until Solaris
8 came out but that little warning message when you first start up OW after
a fresh install made me sad :-(

Chad

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Gregory Leblanc
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:04 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: KDE (was RE: [geeks] IRC)


On 18 Jun 2001 07:02:46 -0500, Chad A. Chance wrote:
> I had been useing AfterStep since Solaris 8 came out while at the same
time
> trying to get GNOME to work, but GNOME just seems very unstable and
EXTREMLY
> bloated. I've been giving KDE a shot for the past 2 months or so and I'm
> really starting to enjoy it. It's VERY stable, not as bloated as GNOME,
> provides quite a bit of functionality, and best of all, it's not CDE ;)
> I'm still not sure if I'm going to stick with KDE, but for right now it is
a
> nice change.

Well, I take offense to the bloated part, but the unstable part is
pretty much true.  90% of the GNOME development for 1.4 was done on
Linux, and without the benefit of Solaris, or the tools it offers.  This
is has already started to change, and some heavy development is going on
towards the next release.  Remember, that's a preview release for
Solaris, it hasn't been through the full suite of tests and development
that things like CDE have.  I run GNOME full time on my Linux/x86
machines, and it's rock solid stable, and plenty fast (2.4.x as a kernel
helps too).
Can you explain the bloat a little, other than installation being a
total bitch?
	Greg

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