KDE and GNOME apps - k3b question

[David Curry]

John R. Tomawski wrote:

> Here's a question, why would k3b return an error while trying to run 
> cdrdao as superuser, when I'm not logged in as superuser? This doesn't 
> happen while using kdm.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:30 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>
>>Øyvind Lode wrote:
>>> This may be a dumb question but I'm not that familiar with the Linux 
>>> desktop...
>>> 
>>> Can I run GNOME apps on KDE and vice versa?
>>> 
>>> For instance:
>>> As I understand it a app called K3b is a cd/dvd burning app for KDE.
>>> Can I use K3b in GNOME??
>>
>>Yes, you can. I would normally add a proviso along the lines of 
>>"providing you have the KDE libraries etc. installed" but yum/rpm/apt 
>>etc. dependency handling should enforce that, so the short answer is "yes".
>>
>>Paul.
>>
>>    
>>
John,  I believe you would be better served to start a new thread on a 
question like yours rather than attempting to "hijack" some else's 
thread.  Paul's reply to Oyvind's question was quite responsive to the 
question asked and quite accurate.  I run a Gnome desktop and use K3b.