On Fri February 24 2006 15:24, fons adriaensen wrote: > And you can't even disable this madness except via > the KDE 'control center'. Why should I even consider > running that when I don't use KDE ? I've had the problem in the other direction; there used to be a program called "switch" that would let you change the style and font of all Gtk/GNOME apps without running GNOME's control center, but if it's still around it's not packaged by Mandriva and gnome-control-center just brings up a blank window under KDE. GNOME is wed to gconf and KDE is wed to a million little files under the .kde directory (which is fine with me, because I'd rather lose the settings for one app if power goes out or something than all of my apps at once.... c.f. Windows registry.) They both need to take their heads out of their asses and compromise on some single config repository with commonly named settings shared across both desktops. I'm too used to little niceties like drag and drop menu items and being able to go "fish://username@somehost" to browse files on other machines (via SSH) to give up the modern desktop environments, but I am tempted at times to move back to IceWM anyway. There sure would be a lot less unexpected CPU hogging when I'm trying to record audio that way. Rob
