Banshee CVS/Xfce

I’ve been using Banshee CVS with Xfce 4.4Beta1 with Ubuntu Dapper, everything seems fine. Except for the fact that Banshee 0.10.10 used to use ~30 M on my machine and now the CVS Version uses ~75M, which is a bit disappointing. I can afford it luckily so I don’t care as much because I have 768 M of RAM. But it concerns me that all the other Mono apps are very resource-intensive as well, such as F-Spot, Beagle, etc. Maybe I should move from it – I don’t know because these applications are great and I like what they’re doing and their design etc. But I’m really concerned about the “Resource-Hungry”-ness of these apps. Anyways, Banshee still rocks for me.

On a side note, Epiphany Web Browser (GNOME Web Browser 2.14.2.1) is really great. Today I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was using > 100 M of RAM with only 1 tab open. Then I opened up Epiphany and while it wasn’t much better (~65 M ), its still more responsive and looks better with Xfce because of its Gnome Integration, and hence the GTK Integration. Here’s a screenshot.

Xfce with Terminal-0.25-svn something and Banshee CVS [July 21st?]

/me waits until Xfce 4.4 Final releases.