Cost of running KDE apps with Gnome

[Jon M. Hanson]

	The only "hurt" is in the increased disk space to hold the widget libraries 
for Gnome and the RAM used by those libraries when the program is loaded.
	I run KDE but there are a couple of applications that use the Gnome widgets 
(the frontend to Ethereal comes to mind) and it works fine.

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 16:10, tuna at supertunaman.com wrote:
> I was wondering if it would hurt anything to run Gnome apps on KDE...
>
> And Model T's rock! I'd take a T over a Corvette any day!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jon M. Hanson <jon at the-hansons-az.net>
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 3:40:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Cost of running KDE apps with Gnome
>
> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:34, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > I prefer Gnome to KDE generally, but there are some KDE apps that are
> > really nice so I install and run them on my gnome desktop.  I know that
> > means some library duplication and probably various kinds of overhead, 
> > But that is the extent of my knowledge.  I don't see any obvious
> > negatives so far though this is a 3.0 GHz P4 with HT on 1 GB ram so
> > should have plenty of horsepower for such things.  But ...
> >
> > 1) Might I lose any functionality running the KDE apps under Gnome?
> > 2) Are there definitive caveats or known problems doing so (or a list
> > somewhere)?
> > 3) Is there any way to get an idea of how badly resources are being
> > wasted?
> >
> > Specific example: Comparing AmaroK to Sound Juicer is like comparing a 67
> > Corvette to a Model T.  But when I was looking through preferences I got
> > a report that there had been an error running/accessing/??? aRTs (sic)
> > for AmaroK.  I ended up turning it aff and I can't even find out what it
> > is.
>
>     Arts (it has weird capitalization that I won't try to duplicate here)
> is KDE's sound server. If you just installed the QT libraries to get the
> KDE application working under Gnome then you wouldn't get Arts. Without
> Arts KDE applications probably won't have any sound output.

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