Does the weight of these just irritate you because of how wasteful it is (it irritates me for this reason alone) or does it actually have an impact on you?
People said the same things about gtk or qt when we had motif right? Apps are going to keep getting bigger, our machines get bigger too. I'm not sure what he problem is.
I think I'd like to do more with my machine as it's getting bigger and faster, not the same things from 10 years ago that now hog all of my excess. I have twice the cores, four times the RAM and an order of magnitude more disk space to play with than 2007, I don't think it's acceptable to just have applications take up an extra thread, twice the RAM and more GBs just because it's free; that hardware certainly wasn't free when I bought it.
