Lindsay Haisley ha scritto:
The issue is also that some KDE apps have hooks that not only don't work with Gnome, but which do nasty things such as crash the Gnome panels or some other part of the Gnome desktop environment when you try to run them. Some, such as k3b, are well behaved in this regard (although it didn't used to be) but others, such as kscd aren't.
Since I don't use Gnome, I didn't know this. Very bad indeed :( .On the other hand, I've never, ever seen KDE glitching by mean of a Gnome app.
1) Gnome and KDE make use of a rather large stack of runtime libraries that remain resident. If you are running a Gnome desktop and start up a KDE application, the first thing that happens is the stack of libraries for KDE loads up into the system and remain resident until you restart the X server. This requires a significant amount of resources. Same thing if you are running KDE and start up a Gnome application.
I wasn't aware of this, I must confess. Is there any way to prevent it, so that when you close the app, it cleans the libs from memory? On my main desktop is not a problem, but it would be nice to know just in case.
2) Each environment has a number of dependencies. If you only have one environment installed, installing an application for the other requires that you also install all those libraries and dependencies. Maybe not a major issue for some, but a consideration none-the-less.
Well, it's a very minimal disk space consumption on / that I think it's worth the benefit.
3) Consistency. The desktop environment that the application is designed for has an impact on the application's interface, appearance, etc. Gnome and KDE even have slightly different paradigms for working with the clipboard. Yes, you can do some tweaking to get them to act consistent in some cases, but it's not as simple as using an application built for your chosen environment.
I understand this could be ugly for some, but personally I've never found it a problem - come on, it's always buttons and menus, after all. The only thing that makes me cry is the embarrassing Gnome file dialog :/ .
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