[Digikam-devel] [Bug 192437] Insulate digiKam from geolocation crashes in Marble

[Ken Aitchison]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192437


Ken Aitchison <ken at aitchison.org> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Ken Aitchison <ken aitchison org>  2009-08-12 17:22:24 ---
As an end-user, I suggest you should just integrate DigiKam and Marble into ONE
application.  After reading bugzilla forums on the subject, it seems clear to
me that DigiKam's current dependency on the full Marble package was planned
from the onset, and this is not perceived by the developers as a bug.  So
apparently there are no plans to make Marble an optional component in the
future.  This is, IMHO, a grave mistake which is not only damaging the
perception of DikiKam, but the good name of KDE istelf by extension.

Yes, as it has been pointed out in a similar thread, disk space is cheap. 
Except when you're trying to squeeze that last 20 megabytes or so out of a
distro in order to make it fit on a CD.  Or when your work computer is an old
P4 running Windoze 2k with a crappy 20 GB drive and you only have 3 GB
available for your Linux partition and you were hoping for a distro with more
features than XFCE.  Or when you're running KDE from an image on a USB drive
with only 2 GB free for your image.  But go ahead, keep on telling yourselves
that effectively doubling the size of DigiKam's requirements don't matter.  All
I know is when I run Synaptic/KDEWin installer and select DigiKam, a get a
laundry list of dependencies and a statement that if I want to use DigiKam,
it'll cost me another 75 MB of my precious HD space.  For 75 MB, I could just
install Wine and use XnView.

The sad part here is that the bulk of KDE, being so tightly integrated, is
vastly more efficient than Gnome, byte for byte.  But KDE distros typically end
up about 20-30% larger than their Gnome counterparts anyway, due to a few apps
thrown into the distro that don't seem to get the whole "just use the shared
libs" concept.  Tragically, you're inadvertently contributing to the
(incorrect) perception that KDE itself is bloated, and causing a lot people who
are curious about Linux but on the fence to stick with Windows for their old
PCs or new Netbooks.

Somewhere between Puppy/DSL and the whole "disk space is cheap" attitude there
exists a happy medium that would let users experience the best KDE/Linux has to
offer but keep system requirements low enough to avoid the dreaded label
"Bloatware".  I sincerely hope you'll discover it soon.
</rant>

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