A Mini-Kde project, was: Why Kde should remain as light as possible

[Luciano Montanaro]

On Sunday 14 March 2004 14:00, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first of all, public thanks to Luciano for all the testing he did
> after my request.

I have tested a bit more today. If you don't need xinerama support and 
antialiased text, you can add the options 
-no-xinerama -no-xrender -no-xft.
With these, libqt-mt.so shrinks to 5925200 bytes.
A copy of konqueror linked to this library with  
LD_PRELOAD=~/kde/qt-copy-local/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.1.1 konqueror
on an otherwise "normal" SuSE install, uses, according to top 21MB, versus
23 when using the standard library. Building against this library could 
improve still a bit, since libXft and libXrender are still linked to 
konqueror. 

Hope that helps,
Luciano


>
> Luciano also pointed out the real limit of thin client solutions: when
> you have only one limited machine, or no powerful server, they are
> just not applicable, and this is where the RULE project (see my sig)
> tries to help.
>
> In that context, I have wanted for a long time to put together a web
> page on RULE site devoted to how to build a mini-kde on a Linux system
> which only has X or kdrive installed:
>
>      stripped Qt
>      no arts
>      kmail
>      koffice
>      konqueror
>      kopete
>      kwin
>      nothing else.
>
> I will start by just pasting together all the suggestions that Luciano
> and David Faure already gave to me here or privately. When online I'll
> post the URL here. Any other optimization tips or further feedback to
> build a basic desktop like above are welcome!
>
> Oh, and while we're at this, let me to remember again that "what RULE
> needs more is ONE TIME help by PHP/MySQL experts to rebuild the
> website. Please spread the word!
>
> Ciao,
> 	Marco Fioretti

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Luciano Montanaro //
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