Gnome vs. KDE question.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Robin Laing wrote:
> No, this is not a flame war.
> 
> I have been using Gnome since I started using X-Windows and find it is 
> dumbing down to much like Windows and taking the tools and controls away 
> from me.  I have spent weeks looking for the disk mounting tool to find 
> that I have to do it the Windows way from My Computer, oops, I mean 
> computer.
> 
> As I have some applications that are Gnome based that I like, I want to 
> know if they will run in Fedora running KDE instead of Gnome.  I run KDE 
> apps in Gnome so just wanting to make sure.

Yes. Applications in GNOME in general will run on KDE and vice versa as 
long as you have the relevant libraries installed. They are some 
exceptions like applets in either of these desktop environments which 
wont work on the other.

Rahul