On Saturday 28 April 2012 20:03:19 Martin Gr��lin wrote: > > they might not be 'hard' dependencies, so, in theory, one can install kde > > without them, but what is the result ? > > no mail, no contacts, no calendar, no search, no integration of > > whatsoever, in short: something that has probably less functionality than > > xfce or icewm. so, insead of installing kde without all the above, > > razor-qt seems to be a better choice... > > sorry, but you just mix up things: > razor-qt is a desktop shell like Plasma. Neither razor-qt provide mail, > calendar or anything nor does Plasma. no. I don't think I mix up things here. maybe I was just not clear enough in stating that plasma/kde workspace alone (without akonadi/nepomuk/strigi...) is not of much functional difference than xfce/icewm/razor-qt or anything else which does not provide native mail/contacts/calendars etc. Werner