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On Friday 02 Oct 2015 08:06:50 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 151002 Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> > I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking |
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> > with respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. |
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> > The semantic desktop or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of |
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> > it, is one thing that comes immediately to mind. |
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> I took 1 look at the KDE 4 desktop & started using Fluxbox straightaway. |
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> > Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. |
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> You might like Fluxbox, which is easy to configure to taste. |
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> I had a look at Xfce 12 yesterday & was much impressed : another option. |
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> > I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few more. |
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> > Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge |
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> > kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, |
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> > which I can live with, but not the whole desktop environment ? |
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> I've been doing it for years (smile). |
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> I use 'startx' & in .xinitrc I have : |
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> xscreensaver & |
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> kdeinit & |
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> startfluxbox |
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> This speeds things up. I even manage to go on using 3 KDE 3 games. |
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> The power of Gentoo ! |
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Or give enlightenment-0.19.10 a spin. It works nicely with KDE apps without |
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pulling in thunar and a tonne of gnome libs you never wanted. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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