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