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 1NkHrw-0002kj-Rt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:05:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D265FE0818 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:05:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f200.google.com (mail-pz0-f200.google.com [209.85.222.200]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8348E0976 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:33:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk38 with SMTP id 38so685839pzk.2 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:33:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Fc5dcs+xx08C000ZN79GDQYLn4tmFoTqVX7q2ejLMjY=; b=egCnSMeLnG3ChGphQEXMat3/GmmZb1qVkKR1Qdfw6Lx33KJ0YdQvp5XIFUn0Hd6LzI qpGuMhumQ+Kp6bmGOamZDBBveLKig+4c3HpfH7aFnQQeP81+TmyPlpSUd5PEsTL3UC16 ar2RAcdPKvvplIx6RpLY8TZ++fAfj0jAaySw4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=P8zNU6WS6dy6muhYZ/UTzAIe/wo3iVR2xSiyaHZ0C4Z0Yak2jEOCAjkV02c6+ny8zW ec2blsjvxYQN/s3k01FUAYYMl1xjcA3QfRVd2IcTfWiP2uc9uAnIkj9awe5EZeUCMtyB 6gkqnoSYhzCXU3+rpX4yRAHKhZ8bSwmnubyjA= 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 Received: by 10.141.53.9 with SMTP id f9mr79190rvk.210.1267018408886; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:33:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B84BC21.2010705@gmail.com> References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <201002240336.51695.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <9acccfe51002231938q75c42905r2283c012ddbbf71a@mail.gmail.com> <4B84BC21.2010705@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:33:28 -0800 Message-ID: <9acccfe51002240533l6a380e23wc4fcabf88a18d39f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here! From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd290142f8367048058b6a6 X-Archives-Salt: dbc2f617-0332-45b8-90cc-af24258399a3 X-Archives-Hash: ba2772687763a63391ea59faf4b7a3b1 --000e0cd290142f8367048058b6a6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:41 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > wrote: > > > > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, 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. I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and > > > documentation toolchains or in a browser. > > > > > > The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me > > from running > > > out of disk space. A little research showed that an > > odd-sounding thing > > > called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some dotfiles. > > It turns out > > > to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've got a lot of space > > here and > > > there, but my /home partition was never near full before. > > > > > > I'd like to just nuke nepomuk, but fear the consequences. I'm > > seriously > > > entertaining ideas about a more efficient way to run my Gentoo > > system, > > > although I'll probably keep kdelibs because I like a few of > > their games. > > > Similarly for gnome. But I wonder what I should do about the rest. > > > > > > Ideas? > > > > just deactivate it. > > > > But one thing surprises me - I have 400gb of data in /home. And > > nepomuk just > > needs 600mb... > > > > Okay, but I don't really know what it is, let alone how to deactivate > > it. I'll search around. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > > > Kevin > > To deactivate it: > > System Settings > Desktop Search > [De-select] Enable Nepomuk Semantic > Desktop > > In my case, on the same page, I disabled Strigi also. > > Damien Sticklen > > Thanks. My having research work with a few hundred thousand small files and a couple of terrabytes of storage and backups could account for the size. Some occasional sluggishness too. It makes no sense to index any of this, so ditching it feels good. For anyone else in the same boat, I would amend the instructions thus: System Settings > Advanced > Desktop Search > [De-select] Enable Nepomuk Semantic Desktop Again, thanks. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD --000e0cd290142f8367048058b6a6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:41 PM, ubiquit= ous1980 <nixu= ser1980@gmail.com> wrote:
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <volkerarmin@googlemail.com <mailto:volkerarmin@googlemail.com>> wro= te:
>
> =A0 =A0 On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> =A0 =A0 > I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that= are no longer
> =A0 =A0 > important to me. =A0I have remained out of pure inertia.<= br> > =A0 =A0 > I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. = =A0All I
> =A0 =A0 need from
> =A0 =A0 > any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager f= or multiple
> =A0 =A0 > desktops. I spend most of my time in vim, in the C progra= m and
> =A0 =A0 > documentation toolchains or in a browser.
> =A0 =A0 >
> =A0 =A0 > The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze = on me
> =A0 =A0 from running
> =A0 =A0 > out of disk space. =A0A little research showed that an > =A0 =A0 odd-sounding thing
> =A0 =A0 > called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some dotfi= les.
> =A0 =A0 =A0It turns out
> =A0 =A0 > to be a KDE client - whatever that is. =A0I've got a = lot of space
> =A0 =A0 here and
> =A0 =A0 > there, but my /home partition was never near full before.=
> =A0 =A0 >
> =A0 =A0 > I'd like to just nuke nepomuk, but fear the consequen= ces. =A0I'm
> =A0 =A0 seriously
> =A0 =A0 > entertaining ideas about a more efficient way to run my G= entoo
> =A0 =A0 system,
> =A0 =A0 > although I'll probably keep kdelibs because I like a = few of
> =A0 =A0 their games.
> =A0 =A0 > Similarly for gnome. =A0But I wonder what I should do abo= ut the rest.
> =A0 =A0 >
> =A0 =A0 > Ideas?
>
> =A0 =A0 just deactivate it.
>
> =A0 =A0 But one thing surprises me - I have 400gb of data in /home. An= d
> =A0 =A0 nepomuk just
> =A0 =A0 needs 600mb...
>
> Okay, but I don't really know what it is, let alone how to deactiv= ate
> it. =A0I'll search around.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
Kevin

To deactivate it:

System Settings > =A0Desktop Search > [De-select] Enable Nepomuk Sema= ntic
Desktop

In my case, on the same page, I disabled Strigi also.

Damien Sticklen

Thanks.=A0 My having research work with a few hundred th= ousand small files and a couple of terrabytes of storage and backups could = account for the size.=A0 Some occasional sluggishness too.=A0 It makes no s= ense to index any of this, so ditching it feels good.

For anyone else in the same boat, I would amend the instructions thus: =

System Settings >=A0 Advanced > Desktop Search > [De-selec= t] Enable Nepomuk Semantic
Desktop

Again, thanks.

--
Kevin O'Gorma= n, PhD

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