From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 28 20:58:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rascal.honk.org (cr523413-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.177.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C9514CD3; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 20:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mpoulin@rascal.honk.org) Received: from localhost (mpoulin@localhost) by rascal.honk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA20584; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:01:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mpoulin@rascal.honk.org) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:01:43 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990326213540.008f2c90@mail.bfm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > Interesting. I received your message right after I spent considerable time > at a place that compares various window managers (got there through a link > from FreeBSD.org). I was going to download KDE, but came up on another > stumbling point: Just which of the gadzillion files do I need. Boy, do I > hate ftp! Just a list of file names with no description. Have you taken a look at the ports collection? There is a "metaport" that installs everything you need for KDE in there - it's what I used and it worked quite well. > But back to the topic of desktop managers like KDE. Does all X software run > under all of them, or do you have to have different software (I mean > applications) for, say, KDE and afterstep? I got the impression from KDE > web site that applications must be written specifically for KDE... No, no. Any software written for X will run in X, regardless of the window manager. There are applications written specifically for KDE which will only run under KDE, but you can run any X application in KDE or afterstep or FVWM... that's the whole nature of X. ================== Quote of the Day ===================== What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message