Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

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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

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