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Mallrats
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 Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:09 pm Post subject: Alternatives to Gnome Applications |
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Doing an "emerge -p evolution" as a new Gentoo user is scary.
I want to avoid installing gnome base and kde base.
If I can't install some packages without gnome or kde, what are some good alternatives out there for:
evolution?
dvd-rip?
gdm (any graphical greeter)?
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Lowspirit
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnome Applications |
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| Mallrats wrote: | Doing an "emerge -p evolution" as a new Gentoo user is scary.
I want to avoid installing gnome base and kde base.
If I can't install some packages without gnome or kde, what are some good alternatives out there for:
evolution?
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Evolution alternatives :
Sylpheed (gtk1.x)
Sylpheed-claws ("bleeding edge" version of above)
Basta (gnome2)
You could just peek through the package section of the gentoo site and check the mail section, dependencies are listed there also. I use sylpheed-claws btw, after having tried pretty much all the rest I found it to be the fastest and fitting my basic needs the best.
The rest I bet others have far better suggestions to then I have, cause I don't use either. |
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Mallrats
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out
What I really want is something I can keep a mail store folder like in Outlook and that's compatible with Outlook. Is Slypheed?
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mglauche
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| Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 9:58 am Post subject: |
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why do you get scared by emerge -p ? just because they don't release everything in one giant big tarball, but many small components ?
IMHO, this is a good thing. so if they find a bug in libxml2 they don't have to update the one giant big tarball, but only some small package.
And portage is perfect for resoving depencies 
(oh, and btw, evolution rocks  |
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Locke
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| Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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I think he meant he didn't want to sit through compiling KDE and GNOME. Goodness knows I don't, at least not until my system is stable
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Mallrats
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I don't mind sitting through it, but I've heard a lot of good (stable) things that come from not compiling those huge libraries.
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clubbabyseals
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i've got gnome2 installed but i stopped using it for fluxbox. sylpheed is lightning fast. much faster than evolution (i had ximian on a red hat box before.) evo rocks but it is so big and clunky (i've got a duron 900, 256mb ddr.)
the only thing i don't like about sylpheed is it can't read html messages. does anyone know if that is in -claws or if it ever will be?
i like abiword as a light fast word processor. i've read that some have problems with it, which i have never run into. i just need to learn if it can do any type of scripting/macro stuff for templates. and it can be compiled with just gtk support... |
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