> Hello everyone,
>
> you might also be interested in:
>
> http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/
> http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops-part-2/
>
> It surprised me Razor-qt. I have to say that this environment is not
> nearly as
> complete and comprehensive as Trinity, but memory consumption is
> staggering.
> That would be a consequence of using Qt4? The choice to remain in Trinity
> with Qt3 => TQt3 seems to be a very good decision.
>
> Slavek
> --

Excellent information!  According to the second page, TDE is actually
competitive with (and in some cases surpassing) the traditional
"lightweight" desktop environments.  This is a very pleasant surprise for
me; I had no idea that TDE was even in the same range as I do not run
XFCE/LXDE on my systems.

Regarding Razor-qt, yes, AFAIK a large amount of the measured "bloat" is
directly related to the use of Qt4.  Other culprits might include heavy
use of relatively clunky system messaging interfaces, though I would
expect more of a performance drain from this than a waste of memory.

Thanks for the links!

Tim