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To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:14:31 -0700 Subject: Re: [svlug] KDE and GNOME From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> begin Yueh_Hung_Liu@acer.com.tw quotation: > But if I don't install KDE on my computer, how can I run KDE > applications without proper libraries? KDE is not a monolithic thing. It is a collection of separate things. Let's say you like Konqueror (a KDE application) and Gnucash (a GNOME application. You look up Konqueror on-line. You find that it requires the Qt library and the kdelibs package. Finding Gnucash's dependencies is more difficult, because the on-line information is pretty wretched in that area[1], but you eventually find that it requires guile, slib, libpng, libjpeg, libz, xpm, and gnome-libs (plus you should have perl5). So, you make sure your system satisfies those dependencies (includes all those libraries and other useful things. Having done so, you discover that Konqueror and Gnucash simply _work_, under any window manager, without the need to install huge suites of graphical "desktop" software. [1] I find that the GNOME camp, characteristically, seem to actively discourage people installing only those components they need. The Web sites for GNOME applications generally omit all mention of required supporting software. Coincidence, or is the intended message that one should install everything? ===