On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:04:38 +0100, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/11/2010 01:35 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
It just seems silly that if you want to use the newest version of kate,
kmail etc.
> that semantic-desktop is forced upon you, when you're not interested
in having the
> entire DE.
By the authority vested in me by My-Wife-the-Windows-User, I welcome you
to
the gentoo-users mail list. (I don't recall your name from previous
months,
but, nevermind.)
I see that you've taken some heat in return for your opinions, but you've
maintained a very civil and polite tone to your replies, and I admire you
for that.
Why thank you :-)
On the other hand, may I politely suggest that, if you wish to use the
latest
version of kate (or any other software including software from M$) you
must
necessarily accept the decisions of the author of that software. How
could
it possibly be otherwise?
Well it can't be otherwise, however I do enjoy complaining, well about
certain things anyway. Personally I installed kde, and realized I had no
idea what on earth was on my computer and why, so I removed it and moved
to openbox, and don't use any kde specific apps.
But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't
dependent of the DE, to require a dependency of the DE. It just seems a
bit backwards to me :-) I simply don't understand.
The Ultimate Solution is to develop your own software, of course, and be
the next M$/Google/Whoever.
Hey, I'm still working on it -- I'll get there, do-or-die!
I just started a degree, to accomplish -something akin to- that ;-)
--
Zeerak
