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On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, 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 any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for |
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> >>> multiple 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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> >>> |
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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 a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never |
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> >>> near full before. |
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> >> |
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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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> > |
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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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> --Mike |
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the thing is - xfce does not necessarily use less ram. And semantic desktop |
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can help him to easily find data points over a multitude of documents..,.. |
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