Re: Cleaning the distrib

[Andreas Pour <pour@mieterra.com>]

Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> 
> ephemeron@uk2.net a écrit :
> 
> > On Tuesday 01 May 2001 05:17, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> >
> > Re: Removing superfluous software (cruft.txt)
> >
> > MAIL CLIENTS: Any reason why you're not including KMail? It's in much
> > better shape than Evolution. Unless, of course, you don't plan to
> > include any KDE stuff.
> >
> 
> Kmail is part of kdenetwork.   I break packages only in exceptional
> circumstances
> and that means Kmail goes in.  But the kmail I have does not support
> IMAP and
> I crashed it when I wanted to change my connection parms.


The KMail in KDE 2.2 will have IMAP support -- but that's not out until
June, probably.

> 
> >
> > BROWSERS: For most sites Konqueror is a faster, more featureful
> > browser than either Netscape and Mozilla. Again the only reason you
> > should avoid it is if you don't want to include any KDE apps at all.
> > Konqueror is a a more than half-decent graphic browser. And a fairly
> > good file manager to boot. If you want something consistently faster
> > the only option is perhaps Opera (which is non-free or at least free
> > to the degree you want to get bombarded by Net ads).
> >
> 
> I am not so convinced about konqueror's speed and there pages it does
> not
> render.   However konqueror is part of kdebase and I it never crossed my
> mind
> to remove KDE
> 
> >
> > WINDOW MANAGERS: Why not include icewm, the most Windows-like of the
> > lite browsers. icewm-gnome has gnome support.
> 
> I will take a look at it, but what I am looking for is a WM who has a
> memory
> footprint =< to FVM2's.   It also needs to be frugal on CPU cycles.

Icewm also has some KDE support, though not complete.

Ciao,

Dre