Koen van der Drift wrote: > 1. does the installation of kde interfere with the gnome packages? (I > think the answer is no, but to be safe I'd better ask)
It shouldn't. They are, for the most part [entirely] two different systems that can be run over X11, with a lot of redundant functionality because each wants to be able to provide a complete working environment by itself. I'm typing this on a Linux box running KDE, but could easily log out & come back in running Gnome. I have yet to get KDE running on my Mac at home, but once it's up it should be able to work just fine. > 2. will the programs that depend on the gnome packages/libraries/etc > still work with kde? They should, because of all the redundancies. Whenever a bonobo/gtk/etc Gnome program needs a certain kind of functionality, it'll rely on the Gnome functions for doing them -- even if otherwise you're running a KDE session. And vice versa for qt/etc KDE programs when you're running a Gnome environment (or for that matter, not that different from launching a cocoa/carbon Aqua program from within X11). These programs should all be smart enough -- or from a less charitable point of view, stupid enough -- to only call upon the functions they were built for, even if there are other workalike functions present & active on your system. In short, this should be No Big Deal. If you *do* hit problems, it's probably a bug somewhere. Like I say, this is common on Linux -- I let KDE set up most of the environment, but I do also run some Gnome applications when those versions are nicer than their KDE counterparts. It would be *really* nice if the projects were better integrated, but then that seems extremely unlikely. Too bad... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator, Unix advertising systems, Boston.com _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
