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Re: [trinity-devel] A Standalone Konqueror

From: L0ner sh4dou <sh4dou@...>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:05:18 +0100
2011/12/19 Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>:
>
>> All I can say is that it takes a large subset of kdelibs/kdebase to do
>> that:
>>
>> $ ldd konqueror |grep trin
>>     libkdeinit_konqueror.so => /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
>>     libkonq.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkonq.so.4
>>     libkutils.so.1 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkutils.so.1
>>     libkparts.so.2 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkparts.so.2
>>     libkio.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkio.so.4
>>     libkdeui.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeui.so.4
>>     libkdesu.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkdesu.so.4
>>     libkwalletclient.so.1 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkwalletclient.so.1
>>     libkdecore.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkdecore.so.4
>>     libDCOP.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libDCOP.so.4
>>     libkdefx.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libkdefx.so.4
>>       libtqt.so.4 => /opt/trinity/lib/libtqt.so.4
>
>
> All of these are included in kdelibs, therefore not requiring kdebase at
> all.
>>
>>
>>
>> All I can say is that it is not a simple proposition.  One person wants
>> konqueror, another wants konsole and kate, yet another will want something
>> else.  Disk space is pretty cheap.  It seems like a lot of work for little
>> advantage.
>
>
> I am aware that it does drag in a hefty bit of libraries. Here is a quote
> from a user who mentioned this on reddit today:
>
> "So? Start with Trinity, strip away everything that isn't needed for
> Konqueror 3 functionality, and package it? I don't *care* if the end result
> is half a Gig in size - that doesn't matter. The functionality does"
>
> Essentially Konqueror doesn't need the rest of tdebase, and most of what it
> depends on is from tdelibs. What it does depend on can be packaged in with
> it.
>
> Konqueror on my machine pulls in 72 different libraries, as a comparison,
> firefox pulls in at 57 and mplayer at 142
>
> I think it might be worth considering,
>
> Calvin Morrison
Besides, through modularizations we allow users to choose what
actually goes in their system.
I think it's a good idea.