[newbie] Desktops and their progs

2003-10-07 Thread Max . Benitz
Greetings, The default install of Mandrake 9.1 has provided us with a number of different desktop environments (7?), and I understand that the variety is there because of personal preferences in decoration and performance. But it has also provided us with some programs which seem keyed to

Re: [newbie] Desktops and their progs

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Mooney
SNIP So my question for ya'll today is: is there any reason that I need to stick with KDE native (would that be the right term?) applications, or can I freely use those Gnome applications I like in KDE (and, presumably, vice-versa)? The reason I'm suspicious is that after having a working palm

Re: [newbie] Desktops and their progs

2003-10-07 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:30:23 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, The default install of Mandrake 9.1 has provided us with a number of different desktop environments (7?), and I understand that the variety is there because of personal preferences in decoration and performance. But it

Re: [newbie] Desktops and their progs

2003-10-07 Thread Sharrea Day
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 05:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question for ya'll today is: is there any reason that I need to stick with KDE native (would that be the right term?) applications, or can I freely use those Gnome applications I like in KDE (and, presumably, vice-versa)? The reason

Re: [newbie] Desktops and their progs

2003-10-07 Thread rluchor
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 05:04, Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 05:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question for ya'll today is: is there any reason that I need to stick with KDE native (would that be the right term?) applications, or can I freely use those Gnome applications I like