Can anybody tell me which packages of KDE I should install to get a minimal installation, with like no apps at all. Just the DE.

My packages from Alien Bob's ktown repository, I think 4.11.3 works better as it is more modular and therefore more shrinkable. This is not as light as it can get but it works for me and the packages that I use. It would be interesting to see other variations on light KDE.

kikinovak also has a very light install in MLWS.

samac

Well, thanks. This will be my 1007740th attempt to get used to KDE 4 (KDE in general).

Best to get to know the whole thing and then get rid of the bits you don't want rather than installing a very basic system and then building up. If you just want lightweight go for something else if you want KDE you get a complete package which you can trim.

samac

Since Gnome 2 die I've been looking for something simple, user friendly and as good looking as it was. I still haven't found it and to be honest I am pretty sure I will dislike KDE, it is kinda ugly and too much bloatware on it. My desktop use is very basic and I only need a few softwares.

mate slackbuild is a fork off of gnome 2. Chess Griffin is involved, you will find the deatils by searching this forum.

samac

I was trying it but idk

With some Cmakelists.txt configuration, you can compile KDE without these packages:
akonadi-1.10.2
shared-desktop-ontologies-0.11.0
soprano-2.9.3
kdepimlibs-4.11.3
nepomuk-core-4.11.3
nepomuk-widgets-4.11.3

My first linux desktop was Mandrake, (pretty sure it was an early KDE).
My second was slackware 10.1 (eventually upgraded to 10.2), with gnome 2.

Now I'm on 14.0. I did go through the trouble of compiling kde without the above packages.
I'm not sure if it's worth it

Right now my favorite is xfce with compiz & emerald.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps2d20fa59.png

It looks good and works well and is much more "lightweight" than KDE.

I like how fluxbox was done in Mint 9. I can imagine with compiz and emerald, something like that would make a top rate interface.

You're probably looking for something that isn't there, I don't suppose very many people use the stock DE without any tweaking at all, apart from Pat....probably.

Maybe you could take an existing environment and adapt it to your needs, with a little digging around under the hood there's a lot more you can do other than changing fonts, themes and icons. If your desktop is that basic then you don't need to start out from much. I've taken the stock twm that comes with even the most basic slackware install and adapted it to my needs and I use it daily as my main desktop, the two screenshots show the comparison between the basic desktop that comes installed and my own. You can do the same, not just with twm or kde but any of them. Fluxbox, Xfce, whatever. Choose one to start from then read forums, read web pages and read man pages. You can make any of them what you want.

And also, it's fun :-)



*I'm not trying to say 'hey, look at my desktop!', there's already a thread for that, just 'look at what you can do'.

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I like both kde & xfce for the wallpaper slideshow that they both have. I have xfce with MLED installed on my tower and kde with MLWS installed on my laptop. Both are pretty lightweight on system resources.

Are Nepomuk and Akonadi enabled by default on MLWS ?

If anyone's interested, I did make a live version of my attempts at making a "lightweight" kde desktop.

Here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ck-4175483521/

One thing I have found, on the wireless drivers, sometimes you may have to go into wicd settings and change wlan0 to wlan1.

I plan on making one last version that offers a ready made xfce setup (with compiz and emerald), alongside the standard "lightweight" kde WM. XFCE with compiz and emerald only use about 142 mb of memory (total, including system) on boot- which is phenomenal.

"With some Cmakelists.txt configuration" Do you have a patch there to share with us which does this?

No, I don't have the source in front of me, but it was fairly easy to do and involved changing 'required' to 'optional' on nepomuk, etc.

It doesn't look like it, but I usually disable those anyway. You can check out the links below for more information.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...re-4175484111/

http://www.kikinovak.net/index.php?p...rkstation-14-0