The big majority of installing a QT Application is the QT base and its dependencies.
Just the kdebase-runtime required to use QT applications is 50 packages and ~200MB unpacked..
ok so while it might be more than QT getting installed your reply was to gnome users "hate" to use a QT/KDE app like Amarok.. If you fail to see that 234MB of dependencies to just use a simple music player seems silly then I dont think there is a lot more I can contribute to this thread.

Just tried to install k3b on a default ubuntu install

Need to get 94.4MB of archives. After this operation, 305MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

305MB needed to install k3b, 234MB for Amarok, and an additional 60-80 packages... not a small pill to swallow on dialup, nor a quick install on an old machine.

-R

perhaps I dont have the QT libraries installed and I dont see the need to install/maintain/update a fairly large library thats needed for one program...
Its not hate, just distain.. it reminds me of windows apps that need a huge .NET framework, or VB Runtimes just to run a simple program.

thanks for the info, had no idea about the community ports. couldn't find anything on the ubuntu.com download pages/ftp sites, apparently I gave up too soon..

All my sparc servers are either debian or openbsd now, I'll have to give the Ubuntu port a fair chance next time I get the opportunity.
Cheers,
-R

thats odd, because I cannot find any install media newer than 6.10 on any of the download sites. http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/ if its supported, its very poor if they cant even create install disks for the platform.

you dont have any sparc boxes do you? *hint* you'll have to go back several years to even find a Ubuntu sparc64 release.

m0n0wall with a good Intel NIC can do 100Mbit no problems on a 500Mhz cpu. Using a good NIC w/tcp offloading will go along way. Gigabit is where you have issues, even with the best NIC's I had to get a 3Ghz P4 to handle Gbit subnet routing without choking.