On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
In trying to find a way to reach a state similar to #2 using KDE
instead of
Gnome, I had tried installing several KDE apps individually to see what
didn't seem to be required, since if trying to install all the apps I wanted
at once I would have no chance of discerning what might be responsible for
particular items of bloat. What I'd actually like is no more than is
technically required by the DE to run what I need: Konsole, Konqueror,
Ksnapshot, Kcalc and Mozilla-built binaries. It seems before writing here I
should have tried such after adding the above listed intermediates, as the
dep count plummeted.
A super-minimal KDE installation isn't really possible right now due
to the monolithic nature of the KDE libraries and runtime in KDE 4.
KDE Frameworks 5 aims to fix this, so it should be possible in the future:
http://dot.kde.org/2013/09/25/frameworks-5
If you're looking for a lightweight Qt-based desktop, check out
Razor-qt:
http://razor-qt.org/
or just `yum install razorqt`
-T.C.