Is Xfce always faster than Gnome, and is Gnome always faster than KDE?

[Timberwolf5578]

I am going to be getting the Sabayon 3.5 64-bit DVD soon, and I am trying to decide which GUI to install (it comes will all 3 GUIs and more I think). Xfce on the Sabayon 3.5 64-bit Pod edition was super fast, but seemed to lack some of the options that Gnome or KDE had. But this is the first time I have tried Xfce, so many I just couldn't find the additional options.

Anyways, how much of a speed difference is their between these 3 GUIs?

Thanks.

[i92guboj]

I am going to be getting the Sabayon 3.5 64-bit DVD soon, and I am trying to decide which GUI to install (it comes will all 3 GUIs and more I think). Xfce on the Sabayon 3.5 64-bit Pod edition was super fast, but seemed to lack some of the options that Gnome or KDE had. But this is the first time I have tried Xfce, so many I just couldn't find the additional options.

Anyways, how much of a speed difference is their between these 3 GUIs?

Thanks.

Nope. It entirely depends on the way you configure them, the applications you use, and many other factors.

It also depends on how you measure that "speed"

[kostasan]

Nope. It entirely depends on the way you configure them, the applications you use, and many other factors.

An example: Amarok uses QT libraries, while XFCE uses GTK(correct me if i am wrong)
So if you start Amarok in XFCEm QT libraries have to be loaded and will take Amarok a longer time to boot than in KDE.

[i92guboj]

An example: Amarok uses QT libraries, while XFCE uses GTK(correct me if i am wrong)
So if you start Amarok in XFCEm QT libraries have to be loaded and will take Amarok a longer time to boot than in KDE.

The worse part are kioslaves, dcop and a bunch of other kde technologies that have to be started.

However, there are ways to overcome that (at the cost of some extra ram, of course). You can configure xfce to preload that stuff. But anyway, amarok (it doesn't matter the desktop) is an elephant. Firefox is another one (to put an example of a non-qt based beast).

But as said above, it also depends on what do you mean by "fast". Big applications will take time to open, it doesn't really matter the desktop or wm you use. For me, that's not important because I leave the apps open all the time once they are open. For me the important thing is how the apps perform once they are open.

Not everyone measures the speed using the same criteria. For me startup times are pointless, I care much more about responsiveness and interactivity.