From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:53:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201510020853.36256.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151002070650.GC1089@ca.inter.net>
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On Friday 02 Oct 2015 08:06:50 Philip Webb wrote:
> 151002 Andrew Lowe wrote:
> > I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking
> > with respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to.
> > The semantic desktop or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of
> > it, is one thing that comes immediately to mind.
>
> I took 1 look at the KDE 4 desktop & started using Fluxbox straightaway.
>
> > Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt.
>
> You might like Fluxbox, which is easy to configure to taste.
> I had a look at Xfce 12 yesterday & was much impressed : another option.
>
> > I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few more.
> > Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge
> > kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries,
> > which I can live with, but not the whole desktop environment ?
>
> I've been doing it for years (smile).
> I use 'startx' & in .xinitrc I have :
>
> xscreensaver &
> kdeinit &
> startfluxbox
>
> This speeds things up. I even manage to go on using 3 KDE 3 games.
>
> The power of Gentoo !
Or give enlightenment-0.19.10 a spin. It works nicely with KDE apps without
pulling in thunar and a tonne of gnome libs you never wanted.
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-02 3:31 [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment Andrew Lowe
2015-10-02 5:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-10-02 22:41 ` Rich Freeman
2015-10-10 10:56 ` Andrew Lowe
2015-10-10 10:58 ` Andrew Lowe
2015-10-02 7:06 ` Philip Webb
2015-10-02 7:53 ` Mick [this message]
2015-10-02 15:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-10-02 16:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-10-02 20:33 ` Walter Dnes
2015-10-02 21:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-10-02 22:02 ` Walter Dnes
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