install a kde app on ubuntu

[Jaime Davila]

Scott wrote:
> YAGNESH N DESAI spake thusly on 10/30/2006 09:20 PM:
>> I really feel that KDE have some good handy tools.
>>  
>> I was also trying K3B the CD burning software on ubuntu
>> which did not started in GNOME environment.
> 
> How did you install it? If you installed it from the Ubuntu archives it
> should have worked.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install k3b

I can verify that the above line works. K3b is the one kde application I 
can't let go of after switching to gnome when dapper came out.

> 
> 
>> Can anyone suggest any reference where GNOME and KDE are
>> compared.
> 
> I'd just Google it if I were you.  Frankly I can't imagine an unbiased
> comparison anywhere (although Wikipedia might have one.. I don't know).
>  Most fans of either are die-hards and love to tell people why one is
> better than the other. :-)
> 
> I'm an exception. I like and use both. ;-)
> 
> 

I've used both too. In fact, before dapper, I always used kde. Here's my 
take. Both are very good, and reliable. I can't detect any speed 
differences, although a bunch of people say they do. I think the 
argument is that gnome is faster. I haven't detected that, and in fact I 
might have heard at some point someone say (online) that kde is faster 
for them! I feel like basic configuring of most applications is easier 
under KDE, since a bunch of the configuring under gnome is done with 
gnome-conf-edit, which is less intuitive. But, I also think that 
everything that can be configured under kde can be configured under 
gnome, and maybe gnome lets you configure more, if you know exactly 
where to look.

The one thing that made me switch to gnome was that, at least after 
dapper, hibernating and suspending my IBM laptop worked with default 
setups, which was never the case with KDE (I could get it to work under 
kde, but I would need to tinker with stuff first).






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