Ubuntu with KDE vs Kubuntu

[Wulfy]

Francisco Borges wrote:
> Install Kubuntu;
> and a certain KDE app is installed (say make sure KTorrent is
> installed - default KDE app for bittorrent.)
> install some gnome application (using aptitude), say a bittorrent client;
>
> I don know about other people, but I would expect that KTorrent would
> remain being the default bittorrent client. But what happens is that
> the Gnome bittorrent client will be silently set to be the default.
>
> I had this problem several times, and find it irritating.
>
> Derek just sent an email talking about how a system ends up being
> neither one thing nor the other. Well my point is that I expect the
> setup of having KDE as my main desktop not to be ignored whenever I
> install something from Gnome. But that does not happen in practice.
>
> It is this sort of thing that makes me think that makes me think about
> Kubuntu as an "unpolished" distribution.
>
> Oh, well...
>
> Kind regards,
>   
If you do the reverse (add a KDE app to GNOME desktop) does the same 
thing happen?

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