Don't sweat it. A good description of KDE, GNOME and the many others
can be found here: http://xwinman.org/intro.php
But in general, GNOME and KDE are both different Desktop Environments.
They both run on top of a window manager which in turn runs on top of
the X server. While KDE runs pretty much exclusivly on top of it's own
window manager (called KWM) Gnome can run on top of several different
Window managers, including Sawfish (the current default) and
Enlightenment (the old default).
I suspect that someone was simply a little confused about the boundaries
between the Desktop Manager and the Window manager and really meant
something like running Gnome on top of KWM or somesuch. either that
they simply mistyped their question. Easy to do and not neccesarily a
bad thing since it has given us the opportunity to educate ourselves
about the Linux graphical environments.
-Mike
"Any language that will allow you to define the number 4 as a word that
places the number 3 on the stack can be a frightening weapon." --— About
Forth.
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 19:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Uh I know I'm kind of a linux-tard "at this point" so forgive me if
> this sounds stupid, but aren't GNOME and KDE different GUIs? Thus
> begging the question, why would you "run" Gnome on KDE? It's one or
> the other isn't it?
>
> much confused,
> -E
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