Cost of running KDE apps with Gnome

[Dazed_75]

Jon, Thanks - that is what I assumed as a minimum of impact.  In fact,
vmstat seems to be showing I have not even used swap for anything.  I think
my only issue is disk space and I have a large section of this HD without a
partition so was already planning to use it.

Nathan,  responses below:

On 12/5/06, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
>
> You mentioned an error, so I was telling you how to deal with the error.
> You
> got it because arts is not installed, or does not have all the
> dependencies.
> Though you don't have 'KDE' installed, you may have many parts of it.
> Likely
> kdelibs and kdebase, or parts of them anyway if you are running amarok. As
> well as parts of kdenetwork. Having 'KDE' installed is much like
> having 'Gnome' installed. There are many big parts and you can have some
> small parts, but not the whole installed. You may not have the desktop
> environment, but I bet if you have amarok installed, you probably have a
> few
> other kde apps you don't realize.


Yup, the error was that arts was not present (though not clear from the
message).  There was an option to not use it which I then checked.  Thing
was that I could not tell anything about what I was telling it not to use.
A web search was not forthcoming with info either. Most references just said
it was the arts engine for AmaroK which is a totally useless description.  I
did find one reference that seemed to say it was an add-on to AmaroK to
support sound as if it could have no sound without it (clearly false since I
have sound without it).

1) You wont lose much functionality, if any.
> 2) Not really, freedesktop is working towards moving freely between
> desktops.


I had heard that and hope they get it done.  "Duping" all those libraries is
pretty silly (yes I know they aren't really dupes).

3) gtop, mem


These do not appear to be present on the system (ubuntu 6.06).  OTOH,
standard top is as well as many usual ways of looking at memory useage which
do not seem to show any issues.  Perhaps those are KDE apps or maybe just
not installed by default?

nathan
>
> >
> > I do not have KDE installed, I do not have arts or kcontrol on the
> machine.
> > I am not experiencing any problems that I amaware of.  I am simply
> asking
> > the questions in a search for knowledge.
>
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