KDE3 --> KDE4

[Andrew Gould]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:23 AM, RW<rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:33:38 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
>
>        i'd be interested in Paul's question.  it may be that kde3
>>       is sopping up waaaay to much disc space.  only have 6.5g
>>       left....
>
> KDE4 makes  KDE3 look like Fluxbox.
>
> I can't remember  the exact figures on /usr, but I maintain my ccache
> by timestamp, and it rose from 3.2GB to 7.9GB after adding KDE4. And
> that 3.2GB figure included kde3 (including KOffice), xfce, fluxbox,
> windowmaker, icewm and numerous gui and server applications.
>
>

Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in
resource consumption?  (Please forgive me - I know that's a horribly
subjective question.)

Thanks,

Andrew