Running k3b without KDE

[Christopher Browne]

On 12/15/05, paul sutton <zen14920-1HOZaDBbGgxaa/9Udqfwiw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I would assume installing gnome would have the  effect of being able to
> run gnome apps in a different window manager,

At the moment, I'm composing this using Galeon, a notable Gnome app,
and I'm running the wmx window manager, which is anything but
"gnomely."

> 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.

wmx is pretty small...

> 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.

That depends on the application, and precisely which of the services
(and hence libraries) it needs.  It should be pretty easy to determine
this on an app-by-app basis on Debian...
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