Differences between KDE & Gnome

DB Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 16 17:10:15 UTC 2009


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2009 13:50:56 DB wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As a (self-declared) veteran of 8 months using Fedora 9, I'm
>> wondering.... what is the "technical" distinction between KDE & Gnome?
>>
>>  When I first installed F9, Gnome was the default, so I took it, used
>> it, & was "acceptably happy" with it.  Then a month or so ago, following
>> a response to the thread about HTML editors, I installed Quanta,
>> discovered it needed KDE "things" to work properly, so installed KDE &
>> have been "acceptably happy" using it ever since (& enormous "Thanks" to
>> whoever suggested Quanta - a super-magic app!!!!!).
>>
>>     
> I like it, too :-)
>
>   
>> Now, I'm wondering--do I "need" to have both KDE & Gnome installed?  Are
>> there "things" that only work (properly) in one and not in the other?
>>     
>
> If you only have one of them installed you can still run apps from the other, 
> but installing those apps will pull in all the dependencies, so you probably 
> will end up with at least half of the other installed anyway :-)
>
> If you don't have a disk space problem, just leave them.  Having both does not 
> use twice the resources.  Things are only used when necessary.
>
>   
>> (apart from the bouncy doo-dads which I assume are a KDE TM).  If I keep
>> both installed, are all the updates done in one automatically available
>> to the other?  
>>     
>
> Not sure what you mean there, but 'yum update' will keep everything tidy.
>
>   
>> Are hand-installed programs equally available?
>>
>>     
> If you mean the ability to install single applications, there are just 
> different sets of apps, but as I said before, all are accessible to you.  I use 
> the KDE desktop, but there are a few gnome apps that I wouldn't be without.
>
>   
>> And...... what the heck is the definition of "widget", "plasma" &
>> "plasmoid" -- all the doo-dads around my KDE screen appear to do the
>> same things as icons & buttons??
>>
>>     
> Very similar :-)  Full answer on http://userbase.kde.org/Glossary
>
>   
>> Thanks for your comment (** thanks to all the people who set up all the
>> toys & keep them working when I break them  !!!!**)
>>
>>     
> Hehehe - we all break things from time to time
>
> Anne
>
>   
Thanks, Anne!  All strength to you and your colleagues in "KDE World"!!!!!

Dave




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