Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:51:43 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Secondary whine - we could benefit from getting the footprint of the
> desktop down. I wonder if reducing the number of separate processes
> (applets, daemons, etc.) is one element of that.

Is there any evidence this would noticeably improve things? On Linux at
any rate the overhead of a process vs inproc component isn't really that
large. You lose if you are doing RPCs to it obviously but just for sitting
around waiting for events I doubt it's a big problem, especially if they
were moved to be loaded *after* the main desktop UI is loaded.

thanks -mike