Re: Cost of running KDE apps with Gnome

    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 <jon@the-hansons-az.net>
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss@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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