Re: It's spelled "A f t e r S t e p", but it's pronounced "BloatStep"
Gordon Messmer (yinyang@eburg.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:59:59 -0700
Byron Brummer wrote:
>
> baggage. On my P5/200 with 64 Megs it can take quite a few seconds (up to
> 15?!) to switch between workspaces which also causes an effect on the
> display very similar to when the manager is restarted. This makes multiple
I had that problem once, but it was because of my 2MB+ fullscreen
backgrounds, hardly AfterStep's fault. I knew why switching was slow,
and I made the decision to do it because I liked the way it looked.
> workspaces less then worthless, and this is only one area of *massive*
> bloat... Just starting an *xterm* now takes number of seconds that in v1.0
> came up in a nano-second...
Try using lighter-weight background/look settings.
>
> Afterstep v1.0 was very clean, pretty light weight, fast, and useful. The
> new releases however, are *huge*, bloated, slow, and add few really useful
You can turn most of those features off.
> features for the massive cost they take from the system. Hell, MS Windoze
> 95/NT are *much* faster on the same hardware, and more useful... :-(
Excuse me? More usefull? I WORK in Linux. I run afterstep over KDE
and other desktops because it suits the way I work. The only reason I
boot Windows EVER is to play games. (I haven't tried to set up Wine,
but I may someday :) I'd hardly say that it's more useful.
MSG
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