On Friday 02 Oct 2015 08:06:50 Philip Webb wrote: > 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 !
Or give enlightenment-0.19.10 a spin. It works nicely with KDE apps without pulling in thunar and a tonne of gnome libs you never wanted. -- Regards, Mick
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