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Generally, that's true - as long as you have a PC with enough resources to |
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handle everything. There are several considerations for wanting to stick |
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to applications that are designed for a particular environment: |
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1) Gnome and KDE make use of a rather large stack of runtime libraries that |
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remain resident. If you are running a Gnome desktop and start up a KDE |
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application, the first thing that happens is the stack of libraries for KDE |
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loads up into the system and remain resident until you restart the X |
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server. This requires a significant amount of resources. Same thing if you |
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are running KDE and start up a Gnome application. |
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2) Each environment has a number of dependencies. If you only have one |
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environment installed, installing an application for the other requires that |
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you also install all those libraries and dependencies. Maybe not a major |
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issue for some, but a consideration none-the-less. |
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3) Consistency. The desktop environment that the application is designed |
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for has an impact on the application's interface, appearance, etc. Gnome |
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and KDE even have slightly different paradigms for working with the |
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clipboard. Yes, you can do some tweaking to get them to act consistent in |
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some cases, but it's not as simple as using an application built for your |
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chosen environment. |
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I *do* see your point, and I generally follow it myself. I prefer the |
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gnuStep environment myself, but the application selection for it is dismal, |
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so I am usually in Gnome. Even with that, I also use a couple of KDE |
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applications (k3b for one) simply because I require the features they have. |
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But, then, I have a pretty beefy PC. |
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.... HH |
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On 1/10/07, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Lindsay Haisley ha scritto: |
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> > even on Gnome, though |
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> > it's primarily a KDE utililty. I'm just looking for a simple, solid CD |
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> player |
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> > UI that understands CDDB lookups, local and remote. |
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> In fact, I don't understand all this constant "I'm running Gnome/KDE so |
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> I want a Gnome/KDE app" that is constant between Linux/Unix users. |
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> Gnome-GTK and KDE apps work fine together. Why having to fuss for |
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> wanting an app built with one toolkit instead of the other? Isn't |
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> important that the app gets the job done? |
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> m. |
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Harry Holt, PMP |