<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>Am 03.10.2005 um 00:15 schrieb Michael Pyne:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wow, have you used KDE?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Every time I've tested GNOME in the past few years<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">KDE was 'faster', or at least appeared so.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Many hackers smarter than I have<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">invented hacks and other techniques to make KDE the best performing desktop<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of its class, so I'm not sure to what mindset you're referring.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Well as I have said, it is not about speed or the extra mallocs or even the memory usage. It is about people being too focused on the 'current' form of desktops (i386 platform) and declaring machines with <= 2Ghz as old are totally missing the development of mobile devices - anyway this is off topic.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">KDE's integration is also its biggest problem for entering the Consumer Electronics market. Have you ever tried to only use KIO in your application but not kdecore/kdeui?</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Well that is practically impossible as we all know.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Well for Nokia it was possible to just pick Gnome VFS (pay some bucks to make it use DBUS instead of CORBA), simply pick Abiword and many other Gnome stuff and</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">integrate it into their CE product.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">And I appologize for completely going off topic here...</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">(Note that this is partially addressed with KDE4)</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">h.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>