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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

GNOME + KDE = slow?

I've been wonder for a long time: If I install both GNOME and KDE on the same box, will I suffers any performance problems? Some people said that install both will affect the performance because the need to load two libraries (GTK & QT) at the same time.

Is this true? What is you guys opinion? Are there any of you who have both of them install? If so did you notices any slowdown or other side effects compare to having only one window manager? I'm currently using GNOME and I'm thinking of giving KDE a try but would like to make sure that install KDE won't affect my system speed and responsiveness.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: GNOME + KDE = slow?

It's not a matter of just installing (i.e. having lying on disk). It's a matter of using apps using different libraries. The problem is that when you start a GTK app in KDE, it has to load GTK libraries (and vice versa). The effect: a bit bigger memory usage and perhaps a bit longer initial start-up of such app (QT/KDE libraries are already loaded in the memory when you use KDE, GTK/GNOME aren't).

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: GNOME + KDE = slow?

I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

So is this means that if I only use GTK apps on GNOME and QT apps in KDE, then I wouldn't have any trouble?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: GNOME + KDE = slow?

Not at all.

Note that those can't be really called "trouble", just minor inconvenience ;-)

Last edited by lucke (2007-07-26 00:30:58)

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: GNOME + KDE = slow?

And with enough RAM, it's not even an inconvenience any more.

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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: GNOME + KDE = slow?

And with enough RAM, it's not even an inconvenience any more.

Great! So I've got Althlon 64 3200+ with 1 gig RAM, will this be enough to run both without any slowdown?

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: GNOME + KDE = slow?

And with enough RAM, it's not even an inconvenience any more.

Great! So I've got Althlon 64 3200+ with 1 gig RAM, will this be enough to run both without any slowdown?

Yes, I would think 1 G allows running both gtk and qt apps on either kde or gnome without any problems.

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