30 November, 2009

life

Hey, ppl are picking the rebranding spirit up ;-)

Love this brainstorm idea - why not use digikam instead of Fspot on Ubuntu?
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/22708/

Unfortunately digkam brings in over 200 mb of dependecies - that's a bit much, I can see that. So we should simply strive to make sure most if not all these dependencies become part of a standard linux desktop installation. Making KDE applications work better in non-KDE-plasma-desktop environments is an important step in that regard...

On a different topic, I'm in Oslo still, the KOffice meeting is of course over and I've caught up on sleep a bit. I still have about 4 hours to spend in this city and I'm unsure on how... Currently I'm working on some promo/marketing things but I guess it's healthy to take some time off - tomorrow will be day job until friday so if I don't relax a bit now I've have skipped on a weekend - again. Last time didn't agree with me (was tired all week) so I shouldn't do that.

3 comments:

  1. Alternatively you can work on making some of our dependencies more modular. KDElibs, for instance, shouldn't be needed in it's entirety just to run a KDE application on GNOME.

    Good ideas on your end too though :)

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  2. I really wonder how they calculate the 200MB.

    I haven't checked the application specific dependencies of digicam, but if I sum up the value for KDE's base packages, I get to a bit above 40

    apt-cache show kdelibs5 kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdepimlibs5 kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-runtime oxygen-icon-theme | egrep "^Size"

    Size: 10086008
    Size: 280074
    Size: 3575608
    Size: 2818516
    Size: 4843752
    Size: 2292004
    Size: 21181182

    This is on Debian, not sure how different Ubuntu's packages are.

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  3. FWIW :
    apt-cache show kdelibs5 kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdepimlibs5 kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-runtime oxygen-icon-theme | egrep "^Size"
    Size: 7265938
    Size: 235882
    Size: 2501358
    Size: 1987244
    Size: 3919212
    W: Unable to locate package oxygen-icon-theme
    Size: 1511272

    Looks like they are stripped in kubuntu or something.

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