Radek Dobias wrote:
>
> I got a returned message on my post...
>
> By the way, I'm just wondering. What's exactly the difference between KDE
> (or GNOME) and X-Windows. Or is KDE just a GUI for X-Windows?
You've got it, KDE is a GUI for the X Window System.
X provides a method for putting pictures onto the screen (or your
cube-neighbor's screen if that's your thing!), it's up to someone else
what those "things" look like.
Window managers typically paint the borders, root menus, and control
resizing and moving of windows.
Applications decide what they look like inside the window based on the
GUI libraries that they use -- Motif, Xlib, Athena, OpenLook, Gtk, Qt,
etc.
Desktop environments like CDE, KDE, and Gnome are trying to standardize
a complete set of applications so that they look like they belong
together. It's a rather nice change from the mishmash of application
"looks" that we used to have.
Compare xman to Netscape to kpp to Gimp and you'll see the difference
that a GUI library can make!
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Steve Philp
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