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Lindsay Haisley ha scritto: |
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> The issue is also that some KDE apps have hooks that not only don't work with |
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> Gnome, but which do nasty things such as crash the Gnome panels or some other |
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> part of the Gnome desktop environment when you try to run them. Some, such as |
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> k3b, are well behaved in this regard (although it didn't used to be) but |
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> others, such as kscd aren't. |
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Since I don't use Gnome, I didn't know this. Very bad indeed :( .On the |
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other hand, I've never, ever seen KDE glitching by mean of a Gnome app. |
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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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I wasn't aware of this, I must confess. Is there any way to prevent it, |
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so that when you close the app, it cleans the libs from memory? On my |
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main desktop is not a problem, but it would be nice to know just in case. |
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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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Well, it's a very minimal disk space consumption on / that I think it's |
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worth the benefit. |
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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 understand this could be ugly for some, but personally I've never |
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found it a problem - come on, it's always buttons and menus, after all. |
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The only thing that makes me cry is the embarrassing Gnome file dialog :/ . |
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m. |
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