Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 50, Issue 11

[Anthony G Weitekamp]

On the Evolution Note,

Why are we required to have 'evolution' in the first place?  I vote to dump it 
out of the "standard" install and install something that actually works, for 
example, Thunderbird.  Since Firefox is the default browser, why not have 
Thunderbird as the default email client, then for those who are insistent on 
using the other buggy product, let them install it as an option.

Just my 2 cents.

SilverTungsten
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>     1. Re: minimalist KDE in natty (Felix Miata)
>     2. Major bug in intel xserver driver on ubuntu 10.10 (Liam2)
>     3. Re: minimalist KDE in natty (Jim Kielman)
>     4. Re: Evolution in Ubuntu (Paul Smith)
>     5. Re: minimalist KDE in natty (Felix Miata)
>     6. Re: minimalist KDE in natty (Robert Simmons)
>     7. Re: Evolution in Ubuntu (Thomas Novin)
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> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:36:34 -0500
> From: Felix Miata<mrmazda at earthlink.net>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: minimalist KDE in natty
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> On 2011/01/25 00:17 (GMT-0800) Michael Casadevall composed:
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>> Felix Miata  wrote:
>>>   Is there a meta package to accomplish this? I don't want libreoffice, pim or
>>>   desktop search, just enough KDE to have a functional DTE. So far from a
>>>   minimal install I've apt-get installed akonadi-server, libakonadi-dde4,
>>>   dbus-x11, libqt4-dbus, kdebase-bin, kdebase-data, kdebase-runtime,
>>>   kdebase-runtime-data, kdeartwork, kdebase-workspace, kdebase-workspace-bin,
>>>   kdebase-workspace-data, libkdecore5, libkworkspace4, plasma-desktop, xorg,
>>>   xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-video-intel and a whole bunch of other kde*,
>>>   libk*&   *x11* packages, but all I get is a blank screen with mouse cursor
>>>   after logging in via KDM or running startx. No other DTE is installed.
>>>
>>>   Alternatively, can someone see in
>>>   http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Buntu/xsession-errors what the problem is well
>>>   enough to tell me something else that needs to be installed?
>> It's been awhile, but I *think* if you do a basic install (like server
>> with no extra packages) and do "sudo apt-get install
>> --no-install-recommends kubuntu-desktop" it should only pull in the
>> basic set of packages. Failing that, you should be able to install
>> just the session package and then cherrypick what you want, but I'll
>> have to look up what you need.
> 21 more packages it wants:
> kde-zeroconf
> kdegames-card-data
> kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
> kdepasswd
> khelpcenter4
> kmix
> kpat
> kubuntu-desktop
> kubuntu-netbook-default-settings
> language-selector-qt
> libdiscid0
> libkcddb4
> libkdegames5
> libmusicbrainz3-6
> libneon27-gnutls
> libokularcore1
> libpoppler-qt4-3
> okular
> phonon-backend-gstreamer
> plasma-netbook
> software-properties-kde
>
> Surely some of these shouldn't be requirements, e.g. *netbook* or *games*. I
> tried just khelpcenter4, libdiscid0, okular, libpoppler-qt4-3,
> software-properties-kde, language-selector-qt. Still no go, but
> .xsession-errors size went down 3/4 to 32k. Maybe KDE is currently broken?
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