Gnome vs. KDE question.

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Mar 20 22:33:17 UTC 2007


Robin Laing wrote:
> No, this is not a flame war.
> 
> I have been using Gnome since I started using X-Windows and find it is 
> dumbing down to much like Windows and taking the tools and controls away 
> from me.  I have spent weeks looking for the disk mounting tool to find 
> that I have to do it the Windows way from My Computer, oops, I mean 
> computer.
> 
> As I have some applications that are Gnome based that I like, I want to 
> know if they will run in Fedora running KDE instead of Gnome.  I run KDE 
> apps in Gnome so just wanting to make sure.

Rahul has already given you a detailed answer.  Generally speaking, when I 
run into a similar situation I fire up the Gnome desktop, make sure the 
application works there, go back to the KDE desktop and try it under KDE. 
It usually become apparent after doing that bit of detective work.

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