On Thursday 26 May 2011 05:50:14 Walter Dnes wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 08:46:48 Indi wrote:
and have you ever heard of 'code reuse' or 'modularity'?
It seems - no.
Because KDE itself might be huge. But
2011/5/26 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com:
PS. I'm not sure that Linus is using Gnome. I recall him bitching that the
Gnome design approach (which unfortunately KDE imitated) was not the right
direction to evolve linux in.
Offtopic, but... He ditched gnome, then, a couple of years ago, he
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:00:02AM +0200, Walter Dnes wrote:
I don't know how good exmap is, but my personal experience is quite
different. Between Fall 1999 and Summer 2007 I had a Dell Dimension
with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of *SYSTEM RAM* (no not the video card).
It was actually
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:40:54AM -0400, Indi wrote:
Two 800MB floppies
800 KB, sorry. Can't even think that small anymore...
;)
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On Thursday 26 May 2011 07:45:09 Indi wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:40:54AM -0400, Indi wrote:
Two 800MB floppies
800 KB, sorry. Can't even think that small anymore...
;)
Too bad, was just about to ask you where you found those back then :)
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On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:31:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
No, I think you need to get real. It's 2011, what did you expect?
Here's what I don't expect. I run a tight ship on my machine. I
currently have gnumeric and AbiWord and libreoffice-bin running uncer
icewm. In order to get
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:00:03AM +0200, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:31:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
No, I think you need to get real. It's 2011, what did you expect?
Here's what I don't expect. I run a tight ship on my machine. I
currently have gnumeric and
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
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
Indi:
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).
If i will try knode, i get this result:
Total: 69 packages (65 new, 2 in new slots,
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:46 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
For people already running kde it's ok, but for the rest of us
it's a bit ridiculous, isn't it?
I used to use a few k apps in the 3 days, they were small and
easily integrated into the system. Now kde is
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 06:40:01PM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote:
Indi:
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).
If i will try
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 08:46:48 Indi wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:00:03AM +0200, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:31:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
No, I think you need to get real. It's 2011, what did you expect?
Here's what I don't expect. I run a tight
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:20:01PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
and have you ever heard of 'code reuse' or 'modularity'?
It seems - no.
Because KDE itself might be huge. But once loaded the apps are pretty small -
because they reuse code. kmail does not have its own html engine.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:20:01PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Oh - and you should spend some time on Alan's postings. He is not only a
certified OLD FART, he has some serious first hand, real world experience
that
makes most of the other OLD FARTs on this list look like noobs.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:10:01PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:46 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Indi did
opine
thusly:
For people already running kde it's ok, but for the rest of us
it's a bit ridiculous, isn't it?
I used to use a few k apps in the 3
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:13 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Volker Armin
Hemmann did opine thusly:
Oh - and you should spend some time on Alan's postings. He is not only a
certified OLD FART, he has some serious first hand, real world experience
that makes most of the other OLD FARTs on
On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
But many days Neil and Paul can make me look like a blithering idiot :-)
Only with your help :P
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Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas confused?
Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25.
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Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
This gem is a couple of years old, but still a worthy read:
http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html
Read it. Seriously.
Interesting. I'd like to also see KDE4 values :)
BTW, according to the author, the only real memory usage information
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 08:46:48 Indi wrote:
and have you ever heard of 'code reuse' or 'modularity'?
It seems - no.
Because KDE itself might be huge. But once loaded the apps are pretty small -
because they reuse
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke
dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice.
The problem
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast, light, standalone
programs to deal with the formats of word, excel, powerpoint, etc but
if
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:26 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did
opine
thusly:
It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast,
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:40:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:26 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did
opine
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 19:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:17 on Monday 23 May 2011, Bill Kenworthy
did opine thusly:
Do any of them actually work acceptably in terms of compatibility with
MSword though? - having a good, lite suit available for the quick jobs
would be nice.
Well, my usual initial retort to MS suers
On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke
dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice.
The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5
I
On 05/22/2011 01:03 AM, walt wrote:
I was very disappointed to find a major open-
source project following M$ around like a hungry puppy :(
It needs to. If it's not compatible with M$, people won't use it as much.
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