Is KDE on Fedora really that bad?

[Globe Trotter]

--- "ne..." <guhvies at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/2/06, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > --- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Globe Trotter wrote:
> > > >  It
> > > > would really help, if one could install FC with xfce and no gnome or
> KDE.
> > > If
> > > > gnome or KDE needs to be installed just to get things like firefox or
> > > others
> > > > working, I don't see where XFCE fits in.
> > >
> > > You can already do that in Fedora Core 6. In the installer select Fedora
> > > Extras, unselect GNOME and you should be done. Firefox does not depend
> > > on any particular desktop environment.
> > >
> > > Rahul
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, I tried this. But you still end up with a huge amount of gnome
> stuff.
> > If you do a yum remove gnome-\*, almost everything goes, including firefox.
> Thank you for stating this. I had to go thru all the options and
> deselect all the GNOME stuff that it wanted to install even tho I
> explicitly stated I wanted only KDE. And to add insult to injury, it
> set the web-browser & e-mail icon thingy to Firefox & Evolution. Well
> I use KDE and for me that mean Konqueror as browser & KMail/Kontact
> for e-mail. Suffice to say I had already rpm -e'd Firefox and made
> sure nothing to do with Evolution was on my system.
> 
> The only thing that can be said of FC6 is that it seems quite fast
> compared to FC5 & 4. 

I agree with this: which is why it could be faster, if it used something
low-resource-intensive such as XFCE. For those of us interested in computing,
ie actually making the machine solve some difficult problem, it would be really
useful!

Best,
Trotter


 
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