Comment by goalieca
3 months ago
GTK used to be considered the bloated option along with QT. My first Linux box had 128MB of ram and it was screaming fast.
3 months ago
GTK used to be considered the bloated option along with QT. My first Linux box had 128MB of ram and it was screaming fast.
At one point I ran graphical linux on a 20 mb ram laptop although admittedly that was very tight.
I also remember running nt4 with photoshop, word, and my IDE (borland delphi) all at the same time and comfortably in 128 mb of ram.
What was the lean option?
There were a number of smaller libraries closer to the X11 primitives for drawing. Motif was one that i recall which powered opencde and like environments. We had used it for an industrial control system. I ended up using fluxbox as my windows manager for a while which has its own toolkit for decorating windows and drawing menus. It was quite a bit lighter than gnome and pretty much thinly wrapped XFT (fonts), and xlib for drawing, etc.