Promising for DIY Chromebook
I am a KDE user who happens to love Plasma, but who is really unhappy with the performance of several KDE components, such as KDEPIM in general, KMail2 in particular, and this is in no small part because of akonadi and nepomuk
Everyone at home uses Kubuntu, but as a light desktop: email is Gmail web-app inside Firefox or Chrome. Most of the time is spent in browsers, and occasionally LibreOffice, which can be also done in a browser.
So, short of KDE spanning a Light version of Plasma without any ties to all these other components, I need an alternative.
I put Razor-qt to test in my netbook. This is the setup:
* KDM set up to autologin
* KMix in Autostart
* nm-applet (gnome's) in Autostart
* google-chrome also in Autostart
This is a nice set up. This underpowered Mini dropped bootup time to a full desktop from 36 to 15 sec. In extra 5 seconds I have Google Chrome up. A couple things are still off:
* synaptic won't run from the menu (something with kdesudo or the gnome equivalent I guess)
* mimetypes are off, and not configurable.
* I still couldn't configure the wifi connection to work without me providing the keyring passwd (same happens in KDE FWIW, with the Wallet).
Overall, this is great. It tells me that by the end of 2012, someone could put together a great light distro mixing and matching lightdm-qt, razor-qt, and some KDE. Cheers!
I am a KDE user who happens to love Plasma, but who is really unhappy with the performance of several KDE components, such as KDEPIM in general, KMail2 in particular, and this is in no small part because of akonadi and nepomuk
Everyone at home uses Kubuntu, but as a light desktop: email is Gmail web-app inside Firefox or Chrome. Most of the time is spent in browsers, and occasionally LibreOffice, which can be also done in a browser.
So, short of KDE spanning a Light version of Plasma without any ties to all these other components, I need an alternative.
I put Razor-qt to test in my netbook. This is the setup:
* KDM set up to autologin
* KMix in Autostart
* nm-applet (gnome's) in Autostart
* google-chrome also in Autostart
This is a nice set up. This underpowered Mini dropped bootup time to a full desktop from 36 to 15 sec. In extra 5 seconds I have Google Chrome up. A couple things are still off:
* synaptic won't run from the menu (something with kdesudo or the gnome equivalent I guess)
* mimetypes are off, and not configurable.
* I still couldn't configure the wifi connection to work without me providing the keyring passwd (same happens in KDE FWIW, with the Wallet).
Overall, this is great. It tells me that by the end of 2012, someone could put together a great light distro mixing and matching lightdm-qt, razor-qt, and some KDE. Cheers!
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