Re: KDE vs Gnome
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 07:38 +1000, Arjen Verweij wrote:
> I think I used debfoster for this once (or was it deborphan?) to get rid
> of KDE and it was an exceedingly tedious job.
>
Well, I'd simply just do an apt-get remove --purge on all of the kde
metapackages. It might not get absolutely everything, but it'd get most
things. Then after that, run deborphan. I've personally found
deborphan to not be exactly confident in its selection, or should I say,
it's package selection [for removal], doesn't really make you 100%
confident that the package is indeed an orphan and can be safely
removed. Removing Gnome is a lot more tedious, as it lacks metapackages
like kde. You could just try removing gnome, gnome-core,
gnome-desktop-environment and nautilus via the apt-get remove --purge
option, it should pick up *most* things. Sadly, doing so means that
you'd lose things like grip (if you're using a kde desktop), or k3b (if
you're intending on using a gnome desktop). I guess that's where it'd
be nice to see a QT version of grip, and a gtk2 version of k3b ;-)
Dave
>
> Bob Alexander wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> > I currently run a Gnome desktop but also have some KDE appls I cannot
> > seem to live with including Konqueror and k3b.
> >
> > Of Gnome I like the project utopia stuff (hal, d-bus, hotplug etc.).
> >
> > Question 1) What is the state of the art for KDE discovering, loading
> > modules and automagically mount peripherals (such as USB keys or CDs
> > for example) ?
> >
> > Question 2) Is there a know CLEAN way of cleaning up one environment
> > and switching to the other ? Im my case eliminate Gnome and a have a
> > pure KDE environment (even though Grip is great :->) ?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Bob
> >
> >
>
>
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