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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!
From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> Oh, and I'll add that I have no use for KMail. My mail is hosted elsewhere
in Zimbra, yahoo and gmail, depending on the kind of mail, and I'm satisfied
with the UIs that come with those. I access them from a large number of
hosts, so don't want POP or similar access that makes local copies.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Kevin O=
'Gorman <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:kogorman@gmail.com">kog=
orman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" =
style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8=
ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class=3D"h5">On Wed=
, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=
=3D"mailto:realnc@arcor.de" target=3D"_blank">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; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div>On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield 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 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></div><div>Bingo!=A0 I'm OP, and k=
ind 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).=A0 I know how to find thi=
ngs already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just silly. <br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Kevin O'Gorman, PhD<br><br>
</blockquote></div>Oh, and I'll add that I have no use for KMail.=A0 My=
mail is hosted elsewhere in Zimbra, yahoo and gmail, depending on the kind=
of mail, and I'm satisfied with the UIs that come with those.=A0 I acc=
ess them from a large number of hosts, so don't want POP or similar acc=
ess that makes local copies.<br clear=3D"all">
<br>-- <br>Kevin O'Gorman, PhD<br><br>
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