Cost of running KDE apps with Gnome

[Dazed_75]

On 12/5/06, Jon M. Hanson <jon at the-hansons-az.net> wrote:
>
> 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)
>

I used Synaptic to install AmaroK and whatever dependencies it requested
(which did not include aRTs) and it plays fine.

In fact, I had seen it was caplable of displaying lyrics as well but did not
see how to do it.  A web search forund a package at
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=39724 so I downloaded it,
put it in a directory and unpacked it.  After reading the README, I went to
AmaroK to run some manager to install it but found a lyrics package already
there but on a tab I had not noticed.  It is NOT the package I downloaded
since the UI is different, Sure is cool though.

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