There's two forces at work here: laziness and opinion. The programmers doing this in their spare time understandably don't want to reinvent the wheel, especially not doing something as mundane as GUI can be. More featureful toolkits allow for more featureful apps with less effort. Plus some people like KDE and Gnome. My own tastes steer me to using the gui toolkit only and not the desktop framework, which necessarily drives any software I write to be more simple. This is because I as a user prefer fewer dependencies, and I believe more people will use my stuff if they don't have to install everything under the sun to use it. I also happen to think that good UIs are simple and like to delude myself into thinking my choice of only a toolkit (usually Qt) and my laziness are actually positive factors. :-) Also I shouldn't hope to deceive anyone into thinking I write much GUI code of any significance. I'm quite bad at it. But I completely understand where developers that want to leverage the more powerful frameworks are coming from. Incidentally, disk space continues to be a problem even outside of Africa. I have ample disk space but most of it is tied up in music and video and my original guess at how big to make my root partition was a little conservative. Although I did set up LVM, I'm too lazy to do anything about it and so I am back to watching disk space and cleaning cruft (and non-cruft) off my system periodically in fits of rage. Mostly I don't want to have to decide which media must go to make room, and I always think I'm going to use that media drive space for audio projects anyhow... Just my $0.02 in this rantfest. On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 at 23:10 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello *, > > I am working professionel (not as musican) and like to use a program > like rosegarden, but without KDE and GNOME. Because I must maintain > all of my computers my self and make backports and own packages (I am > working under Debian) I do not want to maintain tonns (86 MByte) of > EXTRA packages from KDE, which deinstall in the same time my half > workstation (I hate those monsters of KDE and GNOME and using only > fvwm which works perfectly since 1999). > > Is it possibel to compile rosegarden without KDE? > > If not, is there another equivalent program? > > Greetings > Michelle Konzack > > > -- > Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ > ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### > Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 > 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi > 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) > -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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