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@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 > To: Main PLUG discussion list > 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. -- Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ) Homepage: http://the-hansons-az.net/ Weblog: http://the-hansons-az.net/wordpress/ Jabber IM: jon@the-hansons-az.net --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss