Gnome vs. KDE question.

[John Poelstra]

Ed Greshko said the following on 03/20/2007 03:33 PM Pacific Time:
> 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.
> 

Regardless of what desktop you are using, if you use yum it will pull in whatever dependencies or libraries you need :)

John