I want some KDE apps, but not the KDE desktop environment....

sajro · 2008-03-20 02:50:28

I'm on a laptop running Arch (yay!) and I am wanting to install Amarok and KTorrent. However, I don't want the KDE desktop environment, KWin (I use fluxbox), or things like KDM (I use SLiM). Is there a package, like kde-base in Debian, that allows just essential Qt/KDE libraries for applications like Amarok and KTorrent?

Thanks in advance.

Dirhael · 2008-03-20 03:14:07

According to the PKGBUILD for amarok-base, it doesn't really require any part of KDE itself to run:

depends=('amarok-engine' 'qt3' 'libmp4v2' 'libmysqlclient>=5.0.45' 'postgresql-libs>=8.2.4' 'ruby' 'tunepimp>=0.5.3')

EDIT: And here's the requirements for Ktorrent:

depends=('kdelibs' 'gmp')

Last edited by Dirhael (2008-03-20 03:17:00)

Raisuli · 2008-03-20 04:18:24

I'm running fluxbox with amarok, but not ktorrent. The KDE desktop environment was not installed when I pulled amarok from the repositories, just the dependencies it needed to run.

Aakko · 2008-03-20 09:47:41

I'am running Xfce4 and only KDE app I use is Kaffeine for tv-viewing.

I would like to change KDE theme. Is there a way to get to KDE control panel from Xfce so I could change the theme?

sajro · 2008-03-20 13:42:59

Thanks a bunch!

yagood · 2008-03-20 15:10:55

Aakko wrote:

I'am running Xfce4 and only KDE app I use is Kaffeine for tv-viewing.
I would like to change KDE theme. Is there a way to get to KDE control panel from Xfce so I could change the theme?

Try running "qtconfig" (it's included in QT package).

dunc · 2008-03-20 15:16:57

Aakko wrote:

I'am running Xfce4 and only KDE app I use is Kaffeine for tv-viewing.
I would like to change KDE theme. Is there a way to get to KDE control panel from Xfce so I could change the theme?

Assuming you have it installed,

$ kcontrol

or you can use kcmshell with the name of the options module you want to use, eg:

$ kcmshell style

to change the GUI theme.

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#1 2008-03-20 02:50:28

I want some KDE apps, but not the KDE desktop environment....

#2 2008-03-20 03:14:07

Re: I want some KDE apps, but not the KDE desktop environment....

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Re: I want some KDE apps, but not the KDE desktop environment....

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