From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 19 18:03:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5DB16A414 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:03:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hde@daden.net) Received: from mail.ruder.net (216-166-252-178.dsl.peknil.grics.net [216.166.252.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CBA243D64 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:03:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hde@daden.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:01:12 -0500 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: <16D29086065A7145BCF98C2CF7FB32F509BA4B@mail.ruder.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: KDE + GNOME? Thread-Index: AcZj2xYMCf2sIKLQRVmVLYzvMtoNQgAACh0m From: "Harley D. Eades" To: "Duane Whitty" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: KDE + GNOME? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:03:54 -0000 > I'm contemplating installing GNOME . I am currently > using KDE. Does anyone know of any issues I should > be aware of before I proceed. I'm mostly concerned > about dependency issues, especially wtih respect to the > xorg clients and firefox. >=20 > Essentially I would like to be able to choose which > environment I am going to run on a per-session basis. > Any hints, pointer, RTFMs, would be greatly appreciated. I am running the current GNOME release and I have experienced zero problems. The only thing I don't like about my current installation is that the GNOME systrey does not work. Besides that it runs very nicely. Cheers Harley