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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/12 Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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It might be RAM-efficient, but it would likely be far less CPU-efficient. TTBOMK, xfce is a relatively lightweight desktop environment; whereas KDE is a heavyweight.<br>
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What would be most efficient, however, would be to use something other than a desktop environment--some lightweight window manager like Fluxbox or, even better, RatPoison. RatPoison has about a 300kiB incremental RAM cost. Fluxbox is around 1MiB.<br>
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Mike<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for this Mike; I have been reading this thread intently. I agree the devs need a reasonable baseline and if they say there is a requirement for a window manager for the system to get any sort of assistance... so be it and as you say 300kb is not exactly a hardship.<br>
<br>I would be interested in a distribution that on boot defaulted to starting no desktop environment and starting myth-frontend unless an option was pressed (in which case it would start the desktop environment), or it was started from within Myth. Having a whole desktop environment running seems a little wasteful - I guess it just isn't a priority for many... anyway it not that it is a huge problem; just startup would look prettier and more appliance like.<br>
<br>I am sure this would introduce other issues though; such as administering the system from an environment that is different from the one that mythfrontend normally runs - but I am hypothesising as I dont know the architecture.<br>
<br>R<br><br><br></div></div>