install a kde app on ubuntu

[Shawn McCuan]

k3b is far superior to any offering i've seen for gnome.
But, I have been unable to get it to recognize burning mp3's on ubuntu.

I think I need to install k3b-mad or something like that, but, I'm not
sure. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Shawn 

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:13 -0500, Jaime Davila wrote:
> 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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