Re: Qt and Gnome both on system?

[Matthew Garman <garman@uiuc.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote:
> Your question is sort of unclear. First of all, I should clarify
> something- Qt is just a GUI toolkit- a library which programs can, if
> they chose, link against in order to provide the widgets which Qt
> provides. Since it's just a library, no 'switching' is involved- just
> run a program which uses Qt, and it will use Qt. All of the same
> applies to another toolkit, GTK/GTK+, which might be what you're
> referring to when you say 'Gnome.' In that case, you don't need to
> worry about switching- Qt and GTK apps can coexist with no problems
> whatsoever.

Does this imply that you don't need GNOME or KDE in order to run programs
that were "written for" one of those desktop environments?  For example,
the GNOME terminal, or some other program that has 'gnome' in its title?
How about Konqueror, or other "KDE" apps?  Can I run these programs with
only GTK and QT installed?

Stated another way, are there any programs that *require* any part of the
GNOME or KDE desktop environments to be installed?

I ask because I've been running GNOME for a while.  But I don't really use
any of the features it provides over a standalone window manager, so I
don't see any reason to keep it.  I can free up some space and install QT
for some KDE apps that I've been wanting to look into for a while :)

Thanks,
Matt

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