Breezy Badger - Ubuntu Kubuntu mix

[Antony Gelberg]

Conrad Newton wrote:
> From Antony Gelberg on Monday, 2006-04-03 at 20:23:50 +0100:
> 
>>Bjørn Ingmar Berg wrote:
>>
>>>Hi people.
>>>
>>>
>>>On my desktop computer I am running Ubuntu 5.10.  A short while ago
>>>I decided I wanted to have a look at Kubuntu as well.  So I installed
>>>kubuntu-desktop with all the packages it depends on.  This worked out
>>>well.  Or at least as well as I could expect...
>>>
>>>At login I can chose wether I want to start Gnome or KDE and both work
>>>very well.  Even so I'm not completely satisfied.  The problem is that
>>>in the menues in Gnome I now have lots of KDE-applications, and in KDE
>>>I have lots of Gnome-applications.
>>
>>This is really quite a normal thing.  Many users wish to run Gnome or 
>>KDE, but use apps from the other.  If a Gnome user wants to run k3b, 
>>should it be left off the menu?  It just doesn't make sense (to me) to 
>>limit the user in that way.
> 
> 
> As I understand it, this is not about "limiting" the user, but about
> enabling the user to achieve what they want in a simple way -- ideally
> this could be a simple item in the basic configuration.

It's about both.

> 
> 
>>>It's understandable that this happened and that the installer thought this
>>>was what I wanted.  But now -in hindsight- I wish Gnome had kept itself
>>>Gnome-only and KDE had ended up KDE-only.
>>
>>Why?
> 
> 
> Why not?

I already explained why I don't see the point.