POLL: Fedora KDE Users

[Andy Green]

On Monday 30 October 2006 10:38, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> > I installed Xfce to see how badly you pay for those extra tens of MB, it

> If you're using KDE apps in XFCE then you've gained nothing by
> switching to the lighter desktop. The KDE apps depend on KDE libraries
> that will get loaded in XFCE as well.

It's true that the KDE libs are pulled in of course, but not that there is 
nothing to be gained from not use the KDE DE:

''...
6. Web browser
 
 A very common usage case :). In addition a web browser is launched, showing a 
random WWW site, specifically http://dot.kde.org ;). Browsers used were KDE's 
Konqueror, GNOME's Epiphany and Firefox 1.0.6. To show how applications work 
when not in their native desktop I measured all of them in all desktops:
Desktop + browser  Usage  Diff 
  KDE + Konqueror  95.3 (83.8)  9.5 (11.5) 
  KDE + Firefox  108.0 (90.4)  22.2 (18.1) 
  KDE + Epiphany  112.5 (91.5)  26.7 (19.2) 
  GNOME + Epiphany  127.7 (114.6)  17.3 (11.6) 
  GNOME + Firefox  133.6 (118.8)  23.2 (15.8) 
  GNOME + Konqueror  136.5 (113.3)  26.1 (10.3) 
  Xfce + Firefox  80.2 (73.2)  21.2 (12.2) 
  Xfce + Epiphany  82.6 (72.4)  24.3 (11.4) 
  Xfce + Konqueror  84.4 (71.6)  26.1 (10.6) 
  WMaker + Firefox  69.9 (65.9)  18.5 (6.2) 
  WMaker + Epiphany  74.3 (65.9)  22.9 (6.2) 
  WMaker + Konqueror  80.2 (65.1)  28.8 (5.4)
...''

http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/

Point being:

Gnome DE running Konqueror: 136MB
KDE DE running Konqueror: 95MB
Xfce DE running Konqueror: 84MB

-Andy