Gwibber by default?

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 17:54:16 UTC 2010


On 04/02/2010 11:17 PM, Luke Macken wrote:
> The Gwibber deps seem a bit crazy at the moment, especially since we're
> not even utilizing the desktop couch service for anything else (afaik).
>
> Opening and closing Gwibber will launch these services and leave them
> running behind the scenes:
>
>      Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used   Program
>      ------------------------------------------
>     536.0 KiB + 582.0 KiB =   1.1 MiB   couchdb (4)
>       2.2 MiB + 176.0 KiB =   2.4 MiB   couchjs
>      12.9 MiB + 564.0 KiB =  13.5 MiB   desktopcouch-service
>      20.1 MiB +   1.1 MiB =  21.2 MiB   gwibber-service
>      32.8 MiB +   2.2 MiB =  34.9 MiB   beam.smp (2) (erlang)
>   

Pino (the latest version in Koji) is written in Vala is much faster than
Gwibber and consumes much less resources as well in addition to the
lower number of dependencies.  I have been using Gwibber for a long time
and recently switched to Pino and love it.

Rahul


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