Re: Cleaning the distrib

[Jean Francois Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

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.


>
> 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.