On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 09:23, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I wonder if someone could explain to me just > exactly what Kxine is? I know that it says in the description > that it is a graphic frontend for Xine to integrate into KDE. > I already had an entry in my KDE menu for Xine, so what > does Kxine do that Xine can't, in relation to KDE? >
It's more a matter of preference for GUI. Sometimes, Gnome style apps don't play nicely in KDE - and vice versa. Either which, if the current GUI for Xine works, why change it? > I installed Kxine, and now I have Xine and Kxine in my menu :-/ > I tried to gain understanding from Kxine's Handbook, but the writers > are obviously practical jokers or something. (eg. "Kxine is an application > specially designed to do nothing you would ever want." from Kxine > Handbook pg. 1) > > Any further enlightenment would be greatly appreciated. > Enquiring minds want to know ;-) > KXine, EXine, QXine, GXine are only front-end wrappers that actually contain code that allows hackers in North Korea to use "global processing power" to compute General Kim II's popularity on a worldwide basis. > TIA. > > --Angus -- Sun Jan 19 09:25:00 EST 2003 9:25am up 2 days, 19:08, 4 users, load average: 0.36, 0.24, 0.14 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. -- Kim Hubbard
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