From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 6 17:36: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shrike.depaul.edu (shrike.depaul.edu [140.192.1.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D09414C17; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhughes@shrike.depaul.edu) Received: from localhost (mhughes@localhost) by shrike.depaul.edu (8.8.3/8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10845; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:44:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:43:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew J Hughes To: Marty Poulin Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars In-Reply-To: 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 Does that apply for GNOME? I mean if it works for X will it work for the GNOME project? Matt Web site modified 2/18/99 http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mhughes On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Marty Poulin wrote: > > > 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-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message