On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Indi <thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For people already running kde it's ok, but for the rest of us > > it's a bit ridiculous, isn't it? > > If he was already using Qt4, it might not have seemed so bad. ;) I > think much of that list are from Qt4 and its dependencies. Other than > kdelibs, kde-env, kdepimlibs, oxygen-icons I don't see much generic > KDE stuff (not counting koffice since that's what he was installing).
Last I tried it, you can't run much of that stuff without the whole "kdeinit" thing, which is a giant resource hog (relatively speaking, for those of us accustomed to running trim, fast, light systems). That why I said it's become like an OS unto itself. I remember when people used to carry on about bloaty GNUstep libs, and I said "but those *are* small, fast, and light" and people responded to me in the manner I've responded to kde people who say that about kde. So it really is all quite relative... :) My standard is simple: it has to be able to work without a mouse, and when I hit the keys, I want to see results *immediately* -- real results, not a "wait" dialog or spinny thing. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
