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 1NkMae-0008Lx-CJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:08:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2D99E12A1 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D79E0EE4 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEA31B4224 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:35:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.345 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.345 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.136, BAYES_00=-2.599, PLING_QUERY=1.39] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BKs2aHAxqLo0 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:35:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE351B4218 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NkM4d-0003Ja-LL for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:03 +0100 Received: from athedsl-382579.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.46.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:03 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-382579.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:32:17 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <20100224134136.GA5474@Zeerak.Fullrate> <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> <4B856C0E.3010002@kutulu.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-382579.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4B856C0E.3010002@kutulu.org> X-Archives-Salt: 10b5bd55-b333-4ba0-8061-7023e1df90be X-Archives-Hash: f416613db5af4bca6b455553e241b03f On 02/24/2010 08:12 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > 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. I have semantic desktop disabled and KDE offers a hell of a lot more than just a panel and a pager.