151002 Andrew Lowe wrote: > 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.
I took 1 look at the KDE 4 desktop & started using Fluxbox straightaway. > Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. You might like Fluxbox, which is easy to configure to taste. I had a look at Xfce 12 yesterday & was much impressed : another option. > 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 > kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, > which I can live with, but not the whole desktop environment ? I've been doing it for years (smile). I use 'startx' & in .xinitrc I have : xscreensaver & kdeinit & startfluxbox This speeds things up. I even manage to go on using 3 KDE 3 games. The power of Gentoo ! -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
