I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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I remember hearing for a long time that KDE was bloated and slower than even Gnome. Recent experiences, however, has been completely opposite. I have found KDE to be lighter and more responsive than Gnome and somewhat on-par with Xfce.
Considering I only have 2 old laptops, these comparisons are on the same machine and sometimes same distribution family (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE).
One thing I noticed is that while Gnome eats up RAM, KDE uses less RAM and more CPU. A trade-off I guess.
Makes me think it shouldn't be too hard to have a script that you pass a directory address and it builds the XML file with an entry for every file in that directory.
If it is fast enough, it can even run once on login so if you add pictures to it later, it will be loaded automatically.
It's probably good (for work's sake) that I don't have my laptop here with me right now ... ;)