A request to slim down KDE

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi Manish


No one forces you to use the "include everything" meta ports :) you're free
to pick and chose to install what ever you want -- so if you know that you
only need those applications, only install them directly and not via some
meta-package.
Also remember, that there are different mileages on what a "functional"
desktop should include.


As for activities vs virtual desktops, this is something you have to take
up with upstream.


mfg Tobias

On 25 January 2017 at 10:34, Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing from my second box, which has a graphics chip that does not
> yet work under FreeBSD and therefore runs Manjaro Linux with KDE5.
>
> KDE5 is absolutely sensational, there is no doubt about that. It is as
> functional as the classsic interface we used to see in Windows 2000/XP,
> and in terms of sophisticated look-and-feel, it beats everyone else
> hands down.
>
> But KDE is, in my opinion, is way too bloated now with applications that
> should not be getting installed by default with the base environment.
>
> I request KDE under FreeBSD be trimmed down, and be defined in the
> meta-port catalog as the following listing :
>
> 1) Base runtime, libraries and systemsettings applet
> 2) text editor (kate)
> 3) shell (konsole)
> 4) file manager (dolphin)
> 5) screenshot capture (spectacle)
> 6) image viewer (gwenview)
> 7) PDF viewer (okular)
> 8) CD/DVD writing frontend (k3b)
> 9) calculator (kcalc)
> 10) zip frontend (ark)
> 11) An optional paint program (kolourpaint/krita)
>
> Specifically, no internet and multimedia applications to be installed as
> part of the meta-port.
>
> Defined (and restricted in its definition) as above, KDE continues to be
> as functional as before - and relegates unneeded bloat to the space of
> user-made choices where anyone can add anything else [s]he needs.
>
> There is one more point where KDE could slim down - virtual desktops.
> KDE currently offers 2 ways of doing the same thing - Virtual Besktops
> and Activities. We don't need both, particularly when the base system
> has become so bulky. Eliminating either one makes KDE smaller and faster.
>
> I hope there are more takers than undertakers for my position as stated
> above.
>
> Regards
> Manish Jain
>
>
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