# Motivation
I often come across this idea that the KDE environment is heavy on resources and in recent years I think that's become a matter of presentation.
As an example of this idea, I've noticed that default KDE installations on Ubuntu and Fedora will use around 1GB of RAM when you login.
However, minimal installations on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora will go as low as 500MB of RAM.
I think a lot of people will agree that 500MB of RAM is a respectable result and would love to see the KDE project recognized for this capability more often.
# Plan
Achieving this goal would involve focusing on the following
* Identify the most memory consuming features
* Discuss whether improving them is feasible and any possible tradeoffs
* Revise how to make them easy to configure (in on/off/tradeoff situations)
* Test with some regularity to confirm we don't get unexpected results / issues
# Community
To help achieve this goal we should continue to use KDE Neon as a way to show the world what can be achieved.
Of course, we would also need help from Linux distributions and they could use Neon as their guide.
# Risks and needs
The risks would be lack of interest and lack of developer time.
If distributions decide that enabling a certain feature suits their goals better part of the work done here might go to waste.
From the developer's side, they could have more pressing matters and this kind of optimizations might become secondary.
The main need for this goal is developer time.
# Champion
I'm Juan Pablo Tettamanti and I'd like to help KDE be recognized not only for it's beauty and customizability but also because of it's outstanding efficiency.
On a day to day basis I work as a programmer and I heard anyone could help shape the future of KDE so here I am.
= Interest =