Lightweight addons

[Psoewish]

Hello, I have been changing UIs the last few days like crazy, testing new mods and stuff like that, but now I'd like to get a real effective UI going (I have nothing better to do till I get WotLK )

Now I'm wondering what lightweight mods are out there. Or anything reccomended for that matter.

What I plan on using are the following:

Pitbull (either Pitbull or Grid for raid frames, not sure of that yet)
Dominos
SCT (I have seen quite some people with MSBT, is it better?)
Classtimer
Cooldownbuttons
Chatter
KgPanels
AzCastBar
CowTip
ElkBuffBars/Satrina's Buff Frames (which is the better one? Never really tried SBF)
Clique (couldn't live without this, literally, since I heal with it )
BindPad

Skinner
Cartographer

Ok these last 2 are my main worry, especially Skinner then. Not only is it a pain to set up, it also doesn't really have enough options IMO.
And I think Cartographer is rather resource-heavy, but not sure about this

And of course the basic must-have mods (Omen, BigWigs, etc) that can't be replaced by another addon.

So .. any suggestions?

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[blackpandemic]

I'll be keeping tabs on this thread as I love finding low-memory alternatives to the mainstream addon list.

SCT vs. MSBT: MSBT simply has a more complex trigger system and allows for a much greater customization. Not sure it uses any less/more memory.

CowTip can be replaced by TipTac. CowTip was way to complex for my liking as tooltips are a fairly small part of the game for me.

I prefer SBF just as I've grown to love it more than Elkano's. It's more of an opinion thing I think.

Skinner is a bit intense, and really not necessary. And yes, Cartographer is a bit memory heavy. I'm in love with pMap currently as it resized my window nicely, but I do know that a lot of people like Cartographer due to the implementation of other addons like Gatherer, TomTom, etc.

[Farook]

Get rid of Pitbull and CowTip.

I got incredibely increasing memory figures within the last weeks, and was trying to find out what it could be caused by. Then I found a threat on the Ace forums speaking about a similar problem, and that it may be caused by CowTip.

I replaced Pitbull with agUF (again) and CowTip with TipTac now, and since then my memory doesn't go crazy anymore. I don't know the exact reasons, it may be 'Rock', or another problem with libraries, I don't know. I'm just happy that I could solve the problem for me personally.

[vpr]

Simple Buff Bars is another option for buff bars.

[blackpandemic]

So ag_UnitFrames is a fantastic alternative to Pitbull. I just installed it and got it set up in about half the time it took me to do Pitbull. TipTac, as I've said is great for tooltips, very lightweight.

If you want to throw in a lightweight damage meter I would suggest Violation. I haven't had much time to test it in terms of accuracy but so far it's doing well

[Psoewish]

Well I used to have aguf a long time ago, and then I switched over to Pitbull.
So I downloaded it last week again I think, to see how it had been updated and stuff, and I found it to be not customizable enough. The only alternative I'm willing to take to Pitbull is oUF, which does the same but is lighter ... but does require you to code the settings yourself (there's no in-game options).
I may convert my Pitbull profiles to it someday, I don't think it can be that hard to figure out.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I installed TipTac isntead of Cowtip now, and I'm liking it.
So far it's actually even better than Cowtip for my needs.