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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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>> whole "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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> Oh, and I'll add that I have no use for KMail. My mail is hosted elsewhere |
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in Zimbra, yahoo and gmail, depending on the kind of mail, and I'm satisfied |
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with the UIs that come with those. I access them from a large number of |
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hosts, so don't want POP or similar access that makes local copies. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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