On Sunday 29 April 2012 19:13:35 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Sunday 29 of April 2012 18:42:34 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
The Trinity Desktop Environment is a fork of KDE 3.5. KDE 3.5 used as desktop shell KDesktop and Kicker and as a window manager KWin. TWin is the fork of this version of KWin. Obviously KWin is very well integrated with the rest of the desktop environment (e.g. uses same toolkit) and has been developed especially for the needs of this environment in comparison to things like openbox which is actually a standalone window manager and includes things you don't need. Using openbox will therefore result in higher RAM consumption than using KWin.
So you said this very descriptive! KWin4 is tightly integrated with rest of desktop environment == KDE4 (uses the same toolkit, etc). And just as TWin is tightly integrated with rest of desktop environment == TDE (uses the same toolkit, etc). Each lives in a different environment. KWin is NOT integrated with TDE and includes things that we do not need. Using KWin4 means outside TQt3 still have QT4 tooklit == higher RAM consumption than using TWin.
ah yes I knew that this conclusion would be drawn but it is incorrect. You can easily see that when you closely follow what I have written about the relationship between KWin and TWin and the relationship between KWin and Plasma and the possibilities to trim down KWin.
Cheers Martin