Cost of running KDE apps with Gnome

[tuna at supertunaman.com]

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