[Hamara-devel] From “power on” to “gtk GUI usable” as fast as possible

[shirish]

Hi all,

While looking for interesting links on the web saw 
https://oli4444.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/from-power-on-to-gtk-gui-usable-as-fast-as-possible/

Maybe some of the tips

https://oli4444.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/from-power-on-to-gtk-gui-usable-as-fast-as-possible/#comments

  used there could be used to boost hamara's boot up times on ARM.

One difference I see between the two is that we are looking at using 
LXDE while the gentleman concerned aims to do the same thing but using 
GNOME.

If we use GNOME then while on one hand development time may be cut in 
half but then we are also banking on GNOME being there for quite a long 
time.

And while today GNOME and GNOME Foundation is healthy, this may or may 
not be true in future hence having two desktops does make our strategy 
bit more flexible.

Although few days before was reading some material which had looked up 
all desktop environments over period of times (for the life of me, don't 
remember the link) it did share that all desktop environments had 
fattened over time (as more and more functionality was felt needed) by 
different users and developers to stay relevant. Even minimal desktop 
environments like lxde and its ilk have fattened.

Part of it has also been that machinery itself has got more and more 
powerful and can more things than before at lower cost.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org