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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>
>> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge
>>>> -a --depclean. That should do it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the
>>> semantic-desktop use flag set?
>>>
>>>
>> For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn
>> off the services after installing them.
>>
>> Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment,
>> he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk
>> space.
>>
>
> How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the whole
> "Semantic Desktop" thingy.
>
>
>
Bingo! I'm OP, and kind of like the KDE look, and I'm used to where things
are (except for the new K menu which I'm slowly adapting to). I know how to
find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just
silly.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos C=
hantziaras <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:realnc@arcor.de">realnc@=
arcor.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; p=
adding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class=3D"h5">On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wr=
ote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer<br>
important to me. =A0I have remained out of pure inertia.<br>
I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. =A0All I need from<=
br>
any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for multiple<br>
desktops.<br>
I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation<br>
toolchains or in a browser.<br>
<br>
The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from<br>
running out of disk space. =A0A little research showed that an<br>
odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some<br>
dotfiles. =A0It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. =A0I'v=
e got<br>
a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never near<br>
full before.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. =A0emerge -auDN world.=
=A0emerge<br>
-a --depclean. =A0That should do it.<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the semantic-d=
esktop use flag set?<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn<br>
off the services after installing them.<br>
<br>
Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment,<br>
he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk s=
pace.<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div></div>
How do you know what he needs? =A0He probably wants KDE but without the who=
le "Semantic Desktop" thingy.<br>
<br>
<br></blockquote><div>=A0</div><div>Bingo!=A0 I'm OP, and kind of like =
the KDE look, and I'm used to where things are (except for the new K me=
nu which I'm slowly adapting to).=A0 I know how to find things already,=
but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just silly. <br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Kevin O'Gorman, PhD<br><br>
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