On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:04 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > > > I downloaded wheezy beta3 kde cd and installed. But i got gnome > > > desktop. How to install KDE and remove gnome safely. > > > > Simply install KDE with Synaptic, apt-get or what ever you like and then > > simply remove GNOME. "Simply" removing GNOME won't cause > > inconsistencies, but maybe you have to remove a lot of packages > > manually, since removing meta-packages won't remove network-manager, > > evolution, gcalctool etc., so you better don't install GNOME in the > > first place. > > > > I agree that we shouldn't install GNOME to a Linux anymore. Upstream > > forces hard dependencies to PA and systemd, big intransparent buggy > > blobs. I bet Debian soon or later will switch to systemd too. Current > > Evolution 3.6 can't share Emails with e.g. Evolution 3.2.3, GNOME > > nowadays is crap. A long time ago I switched to Xfce4, unfortunately I > > can't use it's maildir with other maildir compatible MUAs. > > Evolution's maildir ;). > > I did not want to install GNOME. That is why I downloaded KDE cd. But to my surprice, it installed GNOME not KDE. -- L V Gandhi