Hi Manish
No one forces you to use the "include everything" meta ports :) you're free to pick and chose to install what ever you want -- so if you know that you only need those applications, only install them directly and not via some meta-package. Also remember, that there are different mileages on what a "functional" desktop should include. As for activities vs virtual desktops, this is something you have to take up with upstream. mfg Tobias On 25 January 2017 at 10:34, Manish Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing from my second box, which has a graphics chip that does not > yet work under FreeBSD and therefore runs Manjaro Linux with KDE5. > > KDE5 is absolutely sensational, there is no doubt about that. It is as > functional as the classsic interface we used to see in Windows 2000/XP, > and in terms of sophisticated look-and-feel, it beats everyone else > hands down. > > But KDE is, in my opinion, is way too bloated now with applications that > should not be getting installed by default with the base environment. > > I request KDE under FreeBSD be trimmed down, and be defined in the > meta-port catalog as the following listing : > > 1) Base runtime, libraries and systemsettings applet > 2) text editor (kate) > 3) shell (konsole) > 4) file manager (dolphin) > 5) screenshot capture (spectacle) > 6) image viewer (gwenview) > 7) PDF viewer (okular) > 8) CD/DVD writing frontend (k3b) > 9) calculator (kcalc) > 10) zip frontend (ark) > 11) An optional paint program (kolourpaint/krita) > > Specifically, no internet and multimedia applications to be installed as > part of the meta-port. > > Defined (and restricted in its definition) as above, KDE continues to be > as functional as before - and relegates unneeded bloat to the space of > user-made choices where anyone can add anything else [s]he needs. > > There is one more point where KDE could slim down - virtual desktops. > KDE currently offers 2 ways of doing the same thing - Virtual Besktops > and Activities. We don't need both, particularly when the base system > has become so bulky. Eliminating either one makes KDE smaller and faster. > > I hope there are more takers than undertakers for my position as stated > above. > > Regards > Manish Jain > >
