On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:

> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>
>> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer
>>>>> important to me.  I have remained out of pure inertia.
>>>>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu.  All I need
>>>>> from
>>>>> any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for multiple
>>>>> desktops.
>>>>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation
>>>>> toolchains or in a browser.
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from
>>>>> running out of disk space.  A little research showed that an
>>>>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some
>>>>> dotfiles.  It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is.  I've
>>>>> got
>>>>> a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never near
>>>>> full before.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf.  emerge -auDN world.  emerge
>>>> -a --depclean.  That should do it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the
>>> semantic-desktop use flag set?
>>>
>>>
>> For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn
>> off the services after installing them.
>>
>> Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment,
>> he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk
>> space.
>>
>
> How do you know what he needs?  He probably wants KDE but without the whole
> "Semantic Desktop" thingy.
>
>
>
Bingo!  I'm OP, and kind of like the KDE look, and I'm used to where things
are (except for the new K menu which I'm slowly adapting to).  I know how to
find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just
silly.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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