Wow - someone give Kurt a star. Thank you for those direct answers, Yes, I knew I was not really having a performance hit though. The question probably have been clarified to say that if I ever have a resource issue, how big a target is the running of KDE apps under gnome. Not exactly an immediate consern. On 12/5/06, Kurt Granroth wrote: > > Dazed_75 wrote: > > 1) Might I lose any functionality running the KDE apps under Gnome? > > Not really. Quite a bit of the inter-application communication issues > have been worked out. There will be some UI differences and depending > on your configuration, you may also lose some associations. For > instance, if you have Gnome configured to use, say, Firefox for web > links but KDE is configured to use Konqueror, then when you click on a > link in a KDE app, it'll pop up Konqueror, not Firefox. Some (most?) > distributions may have workarounds for this where they set the default > associations for both environments to the same. > > That's pretty minor, though. > > > 2) Are there definitive caveats or known problems doing so (or a list > > somewhere)? > > Nope. > > > 3) Is there any way to get an idea of how badly resources are being > wasted? > > Does it matter to you? If you don't notice any performance hit, then > you could make the argument that none of the resources are being wasted. > Really, the only time when things like that matter is if you have an > older or underpowered system where memory, CPU, and disk resources are > tight. > > > > 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. > > Amarok doesn't do any sound processing itself. Instead, it uses > whatever the underlying sound system is on the computer. I believe most > distributions have it configured to use xine-lib or maybe gstreamer. > Arts was the KDE sound system for KDE2 and sorta for KDE3. I don't know > that it's really configured on any distro anymore, though. It > definitely won't be part of KDE4. > > All that to say that if Amarok works for you, then you can safely turn > off that error message. > > Kurt > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss