Ubuntu 6.10 in the news

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Friday 28 April 2006 14:52, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:37:24 -0700
>
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > As far as I know, it works equally well under Kubuntu, though it is
> > not installed by default and does require that you install some
> > GTK/GNOME-ish supporting libraries, which some folks don't like to do.
>
> I don't understand this.  Are there legitimate reasons for such a
> preference?  I don't use GNOME or KDE, being an IceWM fan,myself, but I
> have both GNOME and KDE because I like and use several programs from
> each 'protocol'.  I do end up with a lot of different libraries but with
> disc space so cheap these days...
Part of the issue of using Gnome apps in KDE is that they can't be made to 
work properly with the kde theme. This is a pain because it looks bad. They 
conform mostly, but for example when it comes to transparent menus, they 
don't. However, I still use some Gnome apps.

Sasha