On Friday 12 January 2001 07:00, Brian Edginton wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:53:24PM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 January 2001 23:46, Kyle Donaldson wrote:
> > > > Hi. Im wondering how to initialize KDE2 in BB. In KDE1 i just put kde
>
> All,
>
> I honestly don't want to start a flame-war here so please take this
> question in that light.
>
> I've seen a couple questions here lately about putting a desk manager
> (mostly kde I believe) on top of bb. Why? One of the advantages of bb
> is it is small and quick and unencumbered by extras. Why remove this
> advantage with a somewhat bloated deskmanager like kde? What do you
> see that you gain here?
>
> Thanks,
> edge
Fair question. If someone is a current BB user and then decides to use it
with KDE, yes it will seem more bloated and dragged down by 'extras'.
My perspective of this was that I was an early follower of KDE (v1 beta
series). At that time I felt it was far and away the best environment out
there on Linux. Unfortunately, on my P133 with 32 Meg, it swapped like
crazy. Then I ran into BB and liked it very much, but didn't want to give up
the stuff I liked about KDE (kppp, kfm, dockable applets). So I started to
figure out how to integrate the 2. Also after using BB for a while, I also
appreciated it's simpler, more sleek look.
So basically (to me at least), it's more of slimming down KDE than bloating
BB.
This is just my opinion. The great thing is about all of this software is
that we can, at least to a certain extent, mix and match as each of us
pleases.
Dan
