Running k3b without KDE

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:30:14PM +0000, paul sutton wrote:
>
>I would assume installing gnome would have the  effect of being able to 
>run gnome apps in a different window manager,  of course you need a lot 
>of diskspace for this, which kind of defeats the point of having a light 
>weight window manager if you are short on diskspace.  It would be 
>interesting to find out how much of kde I need to run kde apps, without 
>acutally having the main user visible component of kde.

A lot of Gnome apps actually only need GTK, so the window manager and
other stuff doesn't need to be there.  When I said "apt-get install
amarok" I got a large dependancy list that entailed about a hundred meg
download.  This list didn't include the desktop and window manager
pieces of KDE, but amarok complained bitterly and was crash-prone until
those front-end pieces of the KDE desktop where also installed.

My issue isn't disk space, but performance, not because I don't have the
hardware, but because I do not require all that other stuff and it does
represent a lag.  Openbox is blazing fast to launch the two applications
I use every day - Firefox and urxvt.
-- 

yours,

William

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