KDE File Chooser in GTK apps on Kubuntu

Billie Walsh bilwalsh at swbell.net
Tue Oct 21 18:04:27 UTC 2008


On 10/21/2008 Willy K. Hamra wrote:
>  one of the things i don't like about linux distros is that they don't
>  actually work much in the features. look at kubuntu for example. they
>  take the KDE desktop as it is from KDE, do some editing on it to
>  become
>  *buntu style, and put it in the repos, the same for all apps, how much
>  development are the distro devs actually doing? packaging and
>  debugging?
>  the distro needs more actual coding and work from the developers,
>  create
>  their own unique style. i can install a debian system, put KDE4 on it,
>  and do some personal customizations on it, like widgets and wallpaper
>  and etc... , and then take kubuntu intrepid, and apply the same
>  customizatins, show the 2 systems to an average user, and i bet you
>  anything he won't make the difference between them! why? because what
>  he
>  is seeing is neither debians work, nor ubuntu's work, this is KDE's
>  work!

A lot of people would say that it's a plus point that from one distro to 
the next KDE or Gnome look and act the same.

Are you saying that each distro should develope it's own 
desktop/windowing system?

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