Den 2014-11-17 21:43, Israel skrev: > On 11/16/2014 11:16 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> Den 2014-11-16 18:25, Israel skrev: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> For all who were not present yesterday, we had an off-the-record discussion. >>> We all decided to think over the current ToriOS setup. >>> >>> Here are some of the thoughts we had: >>> >>> Rox-filer is VERY lightweight, but has some inherent issue. >>> >>> So we discussed (and tested ) using PCManFM instead of udiskie and Rox. >>> I am going to build an ISO soon with this setup and we can further test >>> this. >>> >>> From my initial testing it seems that the memory difference is very >>> minor... so minor I was unable to accurately determine if it did use >>> more or less memory. It was very close indeed. >>> >>> PCManFM (for those of you who have never used LXDE or Lubuntu) is a very >>> lightweight Filemanager, that can handle mounting devices, and also >>> handles a lot of the normal stuff, like MIME-types, trash being saved in >>> a folder before being deleted permanently, etc... >>> >>> As far as we were concerned PCManFM is the best choice for us. It >>> retains the correct Numix-gtk theme, and worked very well. >>> >>> If anyone is opposed to this please speak up! >>> >>> We all thought the benefits of it outweigh the possible downsides. The >>> only downside I noticed was that it opened a bit slower than Rox... it >>> took maybe 1 or 2 seconds to open, rather than opening instantly like >>> Rox does. But this is the initial testing... if I start it in the >>> background (to handle mounting volumes like udiskie has) it may open >>> just as quickly. >>> removing udiskie from the mix may offset any memory losses by using >>> pcmanfm... >>> >>> I'll let you all know when I have an image to test. >>> >> Hi Israel and all toriosadores, >> >> I'm happy with pcmanfm :-) >> >> Best regards >> Nio > > > Ok... the PCManFM results (from a VM) are in... 72MB > I also tried it without a powermanager, and no wicd or volume-icon that > was around 60MB > So... what does this tell me? > I think a desktop computer could run this just fine with pcmanfm instead > of Rox. > Without using the powermanager it knocks it down 1-2MB of RAM > Without volumeicon it is another 1-2MB > Without Wicd is around 7MB RAM > which gets it to 61MB +/- > > I think this is acceptable, what does everyone else think? > > -- > Regards > > -Israel > ToriOS Team >
Yes, I 'vote for' pcmanfm, it does not eat too much RAM. Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
