On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Per olof Ljungmark <p...@intersonic.se> wrote: > On 2013-07-02 18:31, Daniel Nebdal wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> wrote: >>> On 07/02/13 07:10, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>>> El día Monday, July 01, 2013 a las 08:05:37PM -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet >>>> escribió: >>>> >>>>> bsdstats.org > ports stats would have that information probably >>>> >>>> http://bsdstats.org/ports.php?category=91 >>>> >>>> says in column 'times in use': >>>> >>>> x11/kde3: 534 >>>> x11/kde4: 86 >>> >>> I feel as though I'm in the happy minority who use and enjoy KDE4. My >>> FreeBSD desktop/workstation is running it well but it does not have >>> limited resource requirements (i7-750, 8G of RAM, Radeon HD 4650). >>> >>> Since Amarok and K3B outgrew their KDE3 dependencies, I've managed to >>> keep my system KDE3/QT3-free for a while now, though that wasn't always >>> easy in the past. >>> >>> The only real hiccup I've had was the recent KDE4 bump that made me have >>> to reconfigure some things, but it ended up working better than ever in >>> the end. The only current complaint I have is about the atrocities they >>> have committed to KMail. >>> >>> Resource usage and philosophical reasons aside, some people who have >>> been burned by KDE4 in the past may want to revisit it now, it's matured >>> a lot from its early days. >>> >>> Personally I won't miss KDE3 at all, and I really haven't missed it for >>> several years now. >>> >>> Jim >> >> >> I was about to write something similar. My work machine has been on >> KDE4 for years, and though it was quite rocky in the earlier versions >> it has kind of quietly disappeared into the background (in a good way) >> now - while I can understand the gnome2 revival projects, I don't >> quite see the point of e.g. Trinity. > > Of course KDE4 works and many people use it daily - but for me who got > used to a fairly stripped desktop with just the basics I work with all > the time KDE4 was just in the way, in fact, it made me work more on > Windows XP. > > My hope now is that xfce grows just a little bit more in functionality > to be roughly a KDE3 successor. > > //per
I haven't tried it, but Razor-Qt looks like a reasonable environment as well - though you need to add apps, like, oh, the KDE4 ones. Which might not be quite what you were after. x) _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"