1. Lightweight Design

Gnome to me has always been about speed and size, it's smaller and more efficent than kde. but gave you more power than the smaller xwin solutions. KDE is bloated some people will go for that the smart ones will turn to gnome especially if it is designed to use the least amout of resources possible. look what firefox(4.5MB) did to IE(bloated as hell) it's just my two sense but when people ask me what desktop they should use for linux i say gnome, if there was somthing else out their that gave the same power using less resources i would suggest it but there's not. I think if gnome 3.0 could stick to this philosophy we could dominate, a computer is ment to run programs the OS is just a delivery mechinism -- Spids 2024-10-23 10:59:09

JamesHutton (dolcraith@gmail.com): I think a lot of the bloat comes from memory leaks/bugs. I know there were a few in nautilus that caused it to eat up loads of ram. Maybe 3.0 would focus on making sure everything is using a lightweight modular interconnect (DBUS, etc), and make sure they're using them efficiently.

CurtisMinardi: A more efficient use of D-Bus has already been stressed in the other discussion sections and seems to be vital to the 3.0 release. People want to get to their desktop and manipulate their data with it as fast as possible while still maintaining some visual appeal. Trimming GNOME's memory usage would be a step in the right direction as it would enable GNOME to be more widely and efificently implemented. One of the markets where Linux is rapidly gaining usage is the low-end laptop market where other modern OSes like Mac OSX and Windows XP/Vista cannot meet the hardware requirements. The ASUS EeePC should provide more than enough evidence of this trend.