The Incredible Bloating Desktop

[claydoh]

Re: The Incredible Bloating Desktop

maybe, but the default settings of KDE load a number of things, some of them Non-kde, that may not have anything to do with individual applications.
I blogged it here:
http://dohbuoy.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/slim-it-down/

if you take a look at the source tarball, it is simply a set of options in various config files that disable a lot of autostart stuff at KDE's login - I literally saw my ram usage drop the 30+ percent that apachelogger said I would see.

get rid of apper and packagekit and use the default muon. apper is the renamed KPackageKit, muon is the default system now, packagekit runs in the background as it also handles update notifications, etc. so it is a duplicate tool to muon's qapt. upgraders are probably seeing apper, I don't have it on my clean install.

[SteveRiley]

Re: The Incredible Bloating Desktop

maybe, but the default settings of KDE load a number of things, some of them Non-kde, that may not have anything to do with individual applications.

You might be right. A browse through the dependencies shown on the packages site appeared to show only libs plus basic apps, notably not Nepomuk, Akonadi, and their hangers-on. I have to depart for a biz trip tomorrow; when I return, I'm going to experiment with this some more. It's simply interesting to me.

[Prescience]

Re: The Incredible Bloating Desktop

It might work, but in order to use some of the apps i want, i suspect it would require me to install those packages i don't want. On the other hand, i think i'll try it some day, but for now, i don't want to have to spend all the effort redoing my desktop again. I'd like to know how to do this kind of minimal install for the future, but for now, I'd like to know how i can force my package manager to ignore dependencies and remove only the packages i want removed. I can't continue to convert people to Kubuntu/linux if i can't make it better than what they currently have without too much hassle.

[footer]

Re: The Incredible Bloating Desktop

I'm glad I found this thread. I was beginning to think it was me. But in reality, this sounds to me like exactly what I'm experiencing. I've been using Kubuntu since June 2005. And on the same machine since January 2007. I bumped up the RAM a couple of years ago from 2GB to 4GB but other than that, no changes hardware-wise.

However, it seems to me that each release of Kubuntu has progressively gotten slower. The straw that almost broke this camel's back though was 11.10. I upgraded at the end of October only to find my printer not working. Turns out, I had to revert to 11.04 to get it to work again -- long story but all the details are here: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...7344#msg277344

The thing is, in the brief amount of time I used 11.10, it seemed to be faster performance-wise. I think I know how to fix my printer problem now in 11.10 so I might go back to it. But I agree with everything the OP said. This is why we choose to use Linux in the first place!

Thanks for posting.