From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6DF138827 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA6A321C044; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4EBCE07DD for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi2TX-0000lh-Tc for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:42:24 +0200 Received: from 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net ([67.130.15.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:42:23 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:42:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <560DFA7F.3060703@wht.com.au> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 19eefe99-5333-4885-a906-252084d8eff4 X-Archives-Hash: 076b0930018a1e318af739dfaa419faf On 2015-10-02, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with > respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic > desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one > thing that comes immediately to mind. > > Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The > problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few > more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in > kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can > live with, but not the whole desktop environment? Yes, for some value of "a few libraries". I've used KDE apps on XFCE systems (which is gtk based). It can be done. It requires a lot of KDE librarys, but you don't have to use the KDE desktop. But, in my experience, whenever there's a major upgrade to KDE and you have KDE apps that require different versions of libraries, or backwards compatibility features built into libraries, it gets ugly fast. At that point, I ususally end up uninstalling all KDE apps/libs and doing without for a while. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm in direct contact at with many advanced fun gmail.com CONCEPTS.