Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

[ubiquitous1980]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com <mailto:volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>     > I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer
>     > important to me.  I have remained out of pure inertia.
>     > I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu.  All I
>     need from
>     > any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for multiple
>     > desktops. I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and
>     > documentation toolchains or in a browser.
>     >
>     > The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me
>     from running
>     > out of disk space.  A little research showed that an
>     odd-sounding thing
>     > called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some dotfiles.
>      It turns out
>     > to be a KDE client - whatever that is.  I've got a lot of space
>     here and
>     > there, but my /home partition was never near full before.
>     >
>     > I'd like to just nuke nepomuk, but fear the consequences.  I'm
>     seriously
>     > entertaining ideas about a more efficient way to run my Gentoo
>     system,
>     > although I'll probably keep kdelibs because I like a few of
>     their games.
>     > Similarly for gnome.  But I wonder what I should do about the rest.
>     >
>     > Ideas?
>
>     just deactivate it.
>
>     But one thing surprises me - I have 400gb of data in /home. And
>     nepomuk just
>     needs 600mb...
>
> Okay, but I don't really know what it is, let alone how to deactivate
> it.  I'll search around.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
Kevin

To deactivate it:

System Settings >  Desktop Search > [De-select] Enable Nepomuk Semantic
Desktop

In my case, on the same page, I disabled Strigi also.

Damien Sticklen