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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    lightweight KDE ?
From:       Uwe Rathmann <Uwe.Rathmann () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-08-20 9:23:05
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Hi all,

I like to equip a system, working as a controller of some industrial 
hardware, with a KDE 2.2 desktop. The main purpose of this controller is to 
run a single QT 2.x application, so I need only basic desktop functionality, 
some utilities (printing, process manager, a small editor) and a html browser.

Unfortunately the controller is a 'lame duck' and it is not possible to 
exchange it by better hardware. While the startup performance of the 
application is ok, I would like to improve the startup of the desktop. My 
idea was stripping KDE down to the reduced, well known requirements of the 
controller. I was thinking about leaving out all multimedia stuff and maybe 
all html code, using konqueror with the gecko engine only. (I guess there are 
several other canditates, I'm not aware of ?)

I had a look at the configure script in kdelibs and kdebase, but the options 
seem to let me control, if to include several 3-party libraries, but not to 
select what KDE features to use. So what is my best way to go ?

I guess I'm not the only one who would like to build some lightweight 
desktop. Wouldn't it be nice to have some appropriate configure options ?

Cheers,
Uwe 

 
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