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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 05:31:11
Message-Id: 560E166F.3020607@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment by Andrew Lowe
1 On 02/10/2015 05:31, Andrew Lowe wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 > I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with
4 > respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic
5 > desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one
6 > thing that comes immediately to mind.
7 >
8 > Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The
9 > problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few
10 > more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in
11 > kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can
12 > live with, but not the whole desktop environment?
13
14 Yes. Remove all of KDE then emerge back in the apps you want, they have
15 deps on the libs they need. Whatever they pull in is required.
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20 Alan McKinnon
21 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>