On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 19:21 -0400, David wrote: > On 10/10/2009 6:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 17:18 -0400, David wrote: > >> As for Fedora being a GNOME *based* disto? Many, most?, of the Fedora > >> configuration *applications* are written in the same GTK that GNOME is > >> written in but Fedora runs just fine with only a KDE, or other, > >> Desktop installed and without a GNOME Desktop installed at all. You > >> will, of course, still see some libs and such as they are needed by > >> the system applications. But no GNOME Desktop will be installed, or be > >> available to run, *if* you tell the installer not to install a GNOME > >> Desktop. > > > > I don't think that contradicts anything I've said. The fact that "system > > applications" need parts of a specific DE (even if no actual desktop is > > installed) means that the distro is not DE-neutral, and once again, I > > don't expect it to be in the current state of the art. > > > One more time. The GTK2 that is used to write the system applications is > GTK2. A programing language platform. No more and no less. The very first sentence on http://www.gtk.org/ is: "GTK+ is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API." OK, so my question is *not*, as you seem to think, "why do I have to use this when I prefer KDE?", but "why do system applications need this if they don't have a graphical user interface?". [...] > All so that you can have a GTK free install without any > of 'that nasty GNOME crap' installed. You seem to have gotten it into your head that I have some problem with Gnome. If you look back at this thread I think you'll realize that this is entirely imaginary. Cheers. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
