is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> Why does the GUI [of system-config-printer] depend on gnome at all? As
>> opposed to just Gtk?
>
> It depends on gnome-python2, presumably because it uses some of its
> features. (I think the systray applet is what uses the GNOME libs.) Just as
> programs depend on KDE rather than just Qt for good reasons.
>
> I don't think removing the GNOME dependency is the correct solution,
> splitting off the common, non-GUI files shared with KDE into a
> system-config-printer-common subpackage is. (I should have filed a bug to
> request this ages ago.)
>
>        Kevin Kofler


Okay, I somewhat curious to take a look at system-config-samba myself
as last time I tried it i raised an exception and died quietly.

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