Gnome vs. X? (was [oclug] can someone explain this?)

[Gilles J. Seguin]

Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> 
> I have heard one group of people get excited here: those with laptops and
> low memory who want to use apps like OpenOffice (StarOffice written in
> GTK+).

X is a protocol for communication. It need a server and a client.
And is very thin.
Application using the X Protocol can be huge.

You can not remove a single request without loosing major
windowing functionnality.
It is that or a poor child.

> They would be able to have a full blown office suite running
> without the memory hog that is X.

That must be a joke,
You can run X Window system with 4MB of real memory.
Netscape will run in 8MB

Your video card require may require 16MB to run.

I will like also to have the require of what is a
full blown office suite.
Example of requirements:
- import/export doc, rtf, pdf, latex, ...
- Spelling/Grammatical analysis
- OCR/hand writing, voice recognition, dictation
- HTML, XML, SGML
- jpeg, png, play MPEG/sound
- 2D, 3D editor
- database, SQL
- spreadsheet
- presentation
- ORB/DOM/COM
- finance
- calendar
- net access/browsing
- printer support
- taking care of the baby
- loundry/housekeeping
- What, office suite do not make coffe
- ...