On Saturday 24 December 2011 21:46:39 Greg Madden wrote:
I also do VM's. My main use of KDE is kdepim, I always have an alternate plan ...right now I am testing Debian Wheezy (testing) XFCE & kdepim from KDE4. KDE4 apps on a lightweight DE or WM works ok.
from kde 4.8, you'll need the whole akonadi/nepomuk stuff for kdepim to work, a 'lightweight' DE won't save you any more ressources, then.
werner