Linux KDE & GNOME question

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

That might be related to the window manager, so yes, you are correct to 
investigate KDE vs. GNOME here.

On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:38 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:

>
> On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Note that this will make a very marginal difference in most cases.  
>> Unless there is an issue related to drag&drop, the clipboard, or 
>> window size/resizing/maximizing/moving, etc., this should make no 
>> difference whatsoever.  It's not impossible that it could be throwing 
>> off environment variables or something, but it is highly unlikely 
>> that this is a problem.
>>
>> You can run GNOME apps within KDE and vice versa; it's a matter of 
>> having the appropriate libraries installed.  They might not obey all 
>> of the appearance conventions, but they should still work.
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ok.  I wasn't sure.  Thanks Troy.  Based on the docs for 2.5, KDE 
>>>>> would be the preferred graphical shell.  Do you have that opinion?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I'd have to say that I do. KDE tends to lean toward doing 
>>>> things in ways that Windows and Mac users find "normal" and 
>>>> comfortable. Gnome tends to do things in its own techniques.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again Troy.  I have a tech support issue with a customer that 
>>> is using Mandrake.  I'll have him try the KDE environment and see if 
>>> this make a difference.
>>>
>
> I see Frank.  My particular issue has to deal with palettes not 
> floating over toplevel windows as they should.  Mark Waddingham 
> created an external that fixes this issue in Rev when running in 
> Linux.  I have an e-mail in to him right now regarding what the 
> preferred specs are for this external to work.  Until this bug is 
> resolved in the engine, I need to find the optimal solution for this 
> hack.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Mark Talluto
> http://www.canelasoftware.com
>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$



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