Re: Why not?

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:53:00 -0700
Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:

> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > your KDE session. But again, it's not something that the user would
> > normally want to do: the whole point of using a desktop environment
> > is to avail of a set of consistent software components rather than
> > to adopt a mix-and-match approach.
> 
>     Sez who?  Name the consistency here:
> Writing this in Thunderbird (GTK), running under KDE (Qt), with Gaim
> running to chat with my wife (GTK?) and browsing with Opera (Qt)
> because Firefox (GTK) started puking on me.  Meanwhile I had OOo open
> for some writing not too long ago (Java & ??).
> 

Long may such choice and diversity be available. However a desktop
environment will also feature components such as a window manager,
panel, root window manager, confuration tools, and so on, which simply
do not lend themselves to "switching" from within a given environment.

-- 

Liam