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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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>> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>>>>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer |
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>>>>> important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. |
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>>>>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need |
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>>>>> from |
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>>>>> any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for multiple |
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>>>>> desktops. |
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>>>>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation |
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>>>>> toolchains or in a browser. |
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>>>>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from |
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>>>>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an |
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>>>>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some |
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>>>>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've |
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>>>>> got |
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>>>>> a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never near |
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>>>>> full before. |
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>>>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge |
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>>>> -a --depclean. That should do it. |
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>>> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the |
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>>> semantic-desktop use flag set? |
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>> For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn |
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>> off the services after installing them. |
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>> Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, |
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>> he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk |
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>> space. |
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> How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the whole |
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> "Semantic Desktop" thingy. |
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Bingo! I'm OP, and kind of like the KDE look, and I'm used to where things |
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are (except for the new K menu which I'm slowly adapting to). I know how to |
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find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just |
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silly. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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