Something I found out

[BlahBlah_X]

I was messing around with kde and Cassandra and I made some very important discoveries.

Here is what I did to get a beautiful, functional, KDE without any bloat or interference with GNOME (menu, ect..)

1) In Aptitude or Synaptic, install the "kde-core" package.

2) Choose the kde session

3) Voila! You will have a beautiful, fast, functional, and minimal KDE on your screen. The best part is that only the core apps are installed, so you don't have any kde bloat on your system like KOffice, Adept, ect.. and you can just use the GNOME equivilents instead.

I did this and I am very happy with it. I did install Ark and TastyMenu to my barebones KDE, but besides that, I am quite comfortable using the GNOME apps instead of installing new bloatware.

[newW2]

BlahBlah_X wrote:

1) In Aptitude or Synaptic, install the "kde-core" package.

2) Choose the kde session

What do you mean by step 2?

//Edit//

I got it ... at the login screen select sessions. (':oops:')

[mikpap]

I was messing around with kde and Cassandra and I made some very important discoveries.

Here is what I did to get a beautiful, functional, KDE without any bloat or interference with GNOME (menu, ect..)

1) In Aptitude or Synaptic, install the "kde-core" package.

2) Choose the kde session

3) Voila! You will have a beautiful, fast, functional, and minimal KDE on your screen. The best part is that only the core apps are installed, so you don't have any kde bloat on your system like KOffice, Adept, ect.. and you can just use the GNOME equivilents instead.

I did this and I am very happy with it. I did install Ark and TastyMenu to my barebones KDE, but besides that, I am quite comfortable using the GNOME apps instead of installing new bloatware.

I tried to do that. I say that definetely you have a basic KDE environment but unfortunately there are also some minor or major disadvantages beyond the log off screen. For instance Openoffice is a little messed up (no icons when using the applications, just the description), I haven't manage to have my keyboard fully functional (multimedia keys on a HP Pavilion zt3150ea) although I tried different keyboards and for sure you have to install some more applications for KDE in order to have a functional (my opinion) pc. I would recommend it only if you want to play around. By the way, after upgrading to KDE 3.5.7 (change the repositories to 3.5.7 from Kubuntu.org - had to install full adept support) you have the right log off (with the keys such as shutdown or restart) at you disposal. KDE Bianca 2.2 is still a still much better option at the moment. Keep my figures crossed though in order to have a KDE Cassandra 3.0 or 3.1 (who really knows - except from Clem) ASAP.

[mikpap]

BlahBlah_X wrote:

1) In Aptitude or Synaptic, install the "kde-core" package.

2) Choose the kde session

What do you mean by step 2?

//Edit//

I got it ... at the login screen select sessions. (':oops:')

When you are on the logon screen of Cassandra (the one where you put your username and password in order to login) there is a link called "session" in your right down corner of the login window.There you can change the environment (for instance GNOME or KDE). After that the sytem will ask you which one will be the default one. I suggest you keep gnome as the default one. You can always log off from gnome and login in the kde environment without having to restart your computer (only the gui).

[mikpap]

BlahBlah_X wrote:

1) In Aptitude or Synaptic, install the "kde-core" package.

2) Choose the kde session

What do you mean by step 2?

//Edit//

I got it ... at the login screen select sessions. (':oops:')

When you are on the logon screen of Cassandra (the one where you put your username and password in order to login) there is a link called "session" in your right down corner of the login window.There you can change the environment (for instance GNOME or KDE). After that the sytem will ask you which one will be the default one. I suggest you keep gnome as the default one. You can always log off from gnome and login in the kde environment without having to restart your computer (only the gui).

Well excuse me for being such in a hurry. Didn't see you figure that out...