On 02/10/2015 17:42, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-10-02, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with >> respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic >> desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one >> thing that comes immediately to mind. >> >> Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The >> problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few >> more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in >> kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can >> live with, but not the whole desktop environment? > > Yes, for some value of "a few libraries". > > I've used KDE apps on XFCE systems (which is gtk based). It can be > done. It requires a lot of KDE librarys, but you don't have to use the > KDE desktop. > > But, in my experience, whenever there's a major upgrade to KDE and you > have KDE apps that require different versions of libraries, or > backwards compatibility features built into libraries, it gets ugly > fast. At that point, I ususally end up uninstalling all KDE apps/libs > and doing without for a while.
With situations like this, one has to apply some intelligence (and the reverse is also true - running gtk/Gnome apps on a KDE system). A few simple apps like say okular or konsole will be very manageable, as they have specific narrow functionality and are not core. As soon as you get into apps like dolphin or, god forbid, plasma - then the wheels come off. Both those things hook into core KDE functionality and go to the heart of what makes KDE KDE. Plasma in the context of gtk doesn't make any sense to me, plasma really is intended to drive the heart of a KDE desktop. ANd god help anyone that tries to run anything with kdepim in it - that abomination should not even run on KDE! I have the reverse here, a few GTK apps on a KDE desktop and it's very manageable. The main apps are handbrake, firefox, thunderbird. I see no reason why the opposite wouldn't also be true if the admin is smart -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
