On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:15, Götz Waschk wrote: > Am Freitag, 21. Februar 2003, 09:09:31 Uhr MET, schrieb Quel Qun: > > It is no news, kdelibs requiring galaxy-kde or the mutual requirement between > > kdelibs and kdelibs-common were already against common sense. As of today, > > kdelibs requires kdebase (kdelibs requires galaxy-kde, which in turn requires > > kwin.so, part of kdebase). Of course, kdebase requires 6 other rpm to be > > installed, and I don't know how deep this goes. > > > This means that if I wish to run a kde application under any other > > WM, I still need to install a full blown KDE environment. So long > > modularity, it was nice to see you. > > That's unfortunately true, but KDE apps don't run that well under > other desktop environments or window managers anyway, just think about > the long startup time from kdeinit.
I run iceWM on the laptop just because it's quicker to start. Not much problem on start time with Konq or any of the other apps..... just tired of waiting for KDE itself to start. James
