Re: "No pop up windows"-idea for Gnome 3

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 12 Oct 2006, at 11:09, Martin Jeppesen wrote:

> The second is a Gnome Lite for thin clients. I study at the Danish
> Technical University with about 12000 students and about 1000 thin
> clients. In the summer Holiday they decided to change from Solaris 10
> to Gnome, but when the semester started, it was changed back very
> quicky.
>
> I asked the administrators why Gnome was removed, and the answer were,
> that Gnome took up way too much memory and CPU time, and also that
> Gnome worked very poorly over network sockets.
>
> So I thought it is a shame that Gnome is not suited for thin clients.
> Could that somehow be reworked in Gnome 3?

It could certainly be better, and I know here at Sun we're always  
working to improve thin client performance where we can-- SunRays are  
big business for us, and GNOME is our preferred desktop.  That said,  
we do have thousands of people running GNOME on SunRays here, and its  
performance is still better than on either of the standalone SPARC  
workstations I have on my desk.  So it's certainly not impossible to  
have GNOME run reasonably well today in a thin client environment, if  
you turn off all the resource-hogging bells and whistles  
(screensavers, fancy backgrounds, opaque window movement, network  
monitor applet etc.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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