On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> 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. > >>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation > >>> toolchains or in a browser. > >>> > >>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from > >>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an > >>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some > >>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've > >>> got a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never > >>> near full before. > >> > >> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge > >> -a --depclean. That should do it. > > > > Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the > > semantic-desktop use flag set? > > For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn > off the services after installing them. > > Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, > he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk > space. > > --Mike
the thing is - xfce does not necessarily use less ram. And semantic desktop can help him to easily find data points over a multitude of documents..,..
