Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th Sep 2008 18:46 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
It's been nearly 18 months since the last major Xfce release - Xfce 4.4, to be exact. Xfce 4.6 was supposed to go final this month, but the Xfce team didn't meet the deadline. Instead, they released the first alpha release of Xfce 4.6, and Phoronix summarises the most important changes, including a number of screenshots.
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Member since:2006-03-12
erm It doesn't really work like that. Modern Desktop environments are made up of many loosely tied applications so occupy little as opposed to hard disk space...but even that is not true. Its just more complicated than that, especially as much of the lifting is done elsewhere Linux; X and a whole host of other *stuff*
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by BluenoseJake on Tue 16th Sep 2008 00:40
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RE[3]: Comment by diego
by Ethyriel on Tue 16th Sep 2008 02:19
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He never said KDE and Gnome are bloated, just that they use more resources. Which they do, you said it yourself.
I would debate that KDE and Gnome could offer these features while using fewer resources, and I believe XFCE has been doing that as they add features, but that wasn't what the comment you replied to claimed.
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by BluenoseJake on Tue 16th Sep 2008 10:50
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Member since:2005-08-11
He never said KDE and Gnome are bloated, just that they use more resources. Which they do, you said it yourself.
I would debate that KDE and Gnome could offer these features while using fewer resources, and I believe XFCE has been doing that as they add features, but that wasn't what the comment you replied to claimed.
I would debate that KDE and Gnome could offer these features while using fewer resources, and I believe XFCE has been doing that as they add features, but that wasn't what the comment you replied to claimed.
No, but he did say "it's known that GNOME and KDE3 are resource hogs"
Same thing. I'm pretty sure being a resource hog and bloated are the same thing in tech world. I used bloated, he used resource hogs, but it boils down to the same thing. Which I disagreed with.
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RE[3]: Comment by diego
by Isolationist on Tue 16th Sep 2008 08:11
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Member since:2006-05-28
"It's known that GNOME and KDE3 are resource hogs
uh, not really true. Gnome and KDE3 have more features, therefore use more resources. One man's bloat is another man's useful feature. "
Completely agree, and I was surprised to find that when I tried XFCE 4.4.2 it wasn't any faster or responsive than KDE 3.5.8.
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2005-08-11
uh, not really true. Gnome and KDE3 have more features, therefore use more resources. One man's bloat is another man's useful feature.