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#1 2026-04-04 11:28:30
- olifurz
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KDE meta packages shipping with apps performing the same function
One of the issues Microsoft seems to have with Windows 11 is the fact that there are multiple apps all trying to do the same thing that are shipped with the system (control panel + settings, task manager + resource monitor, etc). yet this issue seems to spill out onto KDE aswell
The kde-utilities-meta package by default ships with kalk and kcalc by default, both which do the job of a calculator. There's also merkuro calendar and korganizer shipped in kde-pim-meta which are both calendars (& their contact book counterparts also exist), and JuK + elisa shipped in kde-multimedia-meta are both music players.
(also, the naming scheme of having half the apps start with a K seems a bit counter-intuitive, the all apps menu being sorted alphabetically seems a bit pointless since you end up having to go to the K section to find half your apps)
I love the KDE ecosystem but it feels quite messy at times.
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#2 2026-04-04 14:59:18
- Lone_Wolf
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Re: KDE meta packages shipping with apps performing the same function
Those are meta packages which main goal is to make things easy to install.
People that know what functionality they want/need treat such meta packages as a list of suggestions and only install what they want from it.
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky
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