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On 02/10/2015 17:42, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2015-10-02, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with |
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>> respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic |
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>> desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one |
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>> thing that comes immediately to mind. |
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>> Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The |
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>> problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few |
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>> more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in |
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>> kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can |
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>> live with, but not the whole desktop environment? |
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> Yes, for some value of "a few libraries". |
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> I've used KDE apps on XFCE systems (which is gtk based). It can be |
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> done. It requires a lot of KDE librarys, but you don't have to use the |
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> KDE desktop. |
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> But, in my experience, whenever there's a major upgrade to KDE and you |
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> have KDE apps that require different versions of libraries, or |
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> backwards compatibility features built into libraries, it gets ugly |
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> fast. At that point, I ususally end up uninstalling all KDE apps/libs |
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> and doing without for a while. |
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With situations like this, one has to apply some intelligence (and the |
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reverse is also true - running gtk/Gnome apps on a KDE system). A few |
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simple apps like say okular or konsole will be very manageable, as they |
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have specific narrow functionality and are not core. |
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As soon as you get into apps like dolphin or, god forbid, plasma - then |
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the wheels come off. Both those things hook into core KDE functionality |
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and go to the heart of what makes KDE KDE. Plasma in the context of gtk |
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doesn't make any sense to me, plasma really is intended to drive the |
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heart of a KDE desktop. ANd god help anyone that tries to run anything |
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with kdepim in it - that abomination should not even run on KDE! |
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I have the reverse here, a few GTK apps on a KDE desktop and it's very |
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manageable. The main apps are handbrake, firefox, thunderbird. I see no |
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reason why the opposite wouldn't also be true if the admin is smart |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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