Comment KDE without Konq, Koffice, K.* ? (Score 2, Insightful) 577
I switched from the spartan Flux/Blackbox a while ago, and I really like KDE as a WM, plus the panel. However, I much prefer Mozilla to Konq, OpenOffice to Koffice, and the same goes for any category of software I've tried (multimedia, graphics, editors,...).
What it looks like, there's no way of installing a diet version of KDE, without hundreds (ok, dozens) of programs I'll never use. Should that be necessary? I'm using Debian packages, but this doesn't seem to be much different if you compile it yourself. In this regard, KDE takes "bundling" to a new level, whipping Bill Gates' ass!
Switch to Gnome? Unfortunately I don't like that environment at all.