From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkLmW-00030C-Ja for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:16:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3734CE1304 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6061E1440 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:12:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4B856C0E.3010002@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:12:30 -0500 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <20100224134136.GA5474@Zeerak.Fullrate> <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2010 18:12:30.0430 (UTC) FILETIME=[EDD657E0:01CAB57C] X-Archives-Salt: 0dd09166-2bbe-4a86-b058-3d830e7def7d X-Archives-Hash: 0dd73eb8488f3a0c6b9dac3743b9a78f On 2/24/2010 11:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the > whole "Semantic Desktop" thingy. Well, mostly based on him telling us what he needs, and that he doesn't really "want" KDE: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, 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. it appears that all he needs is a panel and a pager, which any decent window manager will have. Therefore, if KDE is using up more resources than he feels warranted, perhaps it's time to switch. --Mike