Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > (adding devel@ and Bernhard Rosenkraenzer to Cc list) > > Samuel Klein wrote: > >> Two questions for you: >> 1) is anyone working on a slimmed-down version of QT? It looks as though >> it would be 30M of code and dependencies not in our current image. (see > > It's always been quite easy to rebuild Qt with stripped down > functionality. I've been doing it on both embedded Linux and > Windows environments with Qt 3.x. The worst offenders were > the large encoding tables for charsets. > > The problem with KDE applications is that they depend on kdelibs > too, which in turn tend to depend on the full blown Qt. > > Back at the time of KDE 3.0, there used to be options to build > stripped down versions of kdelibs on top of Qt/Embedded. > Ultimately, you could have Konqueror running off a statically > linked binary of 5-6MB. > > The project was here, but it seems abandoned: > > http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/ > > > >> our latest image, emulation works cleanly : wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulation) >> 2) is anyone working on a KDE package for the XO of any sort? > > I initially thought that relocating the KDE runtime would be hard. > Then I remembered that everything in KDE is relative to $KDEDIR > or $QTDIR. So, easy as pie! >
I gave up on KDE (and Gnome) a couple of years ago because they were so bloated. For about six months I ran XFCE 4.2. I did some beta testing on fairly late betas of XFCE 4.4 and it was starting to look too bloated for me as well. So I ended up using "GNUStep/Windowmaker" after trying most of the lighter ones. I'm still on it, although I do run Gnome on my Fedora virtual machine. I have to admit I haven't tried matchbox yet, but I have tried Fluxbox/Blackbox, IceWM and Enlightenment. Enlightenment is definitely an aquired taste. :) That said, I don't see the point in putting KDE or even QT on the XO. I know there's a lot of educational software available in and for KDE, but doesn't most of it have lighter-weight alternatives? _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
