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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Carlos E.R.   
   Re: Linux GUIs   
   29 Dec 25 22:09:19   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:09:55 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   > The KDE folk spent some time (months?) to optimize the memory   
   > footprint of KDE, and I think it got lighter than XFCE. So I heard.   
   > I can not imagine how displaying a window with round edges and   
   > colour gradations and 3D effects can use less memory.   
      
   This is aided by the fact that KDE is built on Qt, which is optimized   
   to run on a wide range of platforms, including limited-resource   
   embedded ones.   
      
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