> I'm the more confused. You both seem to say that I can use KDE software > on Gnome (ubuntu) if I go to a lot of trouble (and knowledge that I lack) > to make it work. Or am I just not understanding the issues. What I want, > in the ideal situation, is a list of software, as in ADD/REMOVE with a > summary of its functions, that I can double-click to load and run properly. > Someone in this conversation recommended digikam but when I looked at it it > was for KDE.
It's pretty much your ideal situation. You can run KDE applications on Gnome without any trouble - It's simply a matter of adding the applications using Add/Remove (just like any other piece of software). For example, I'm running Ubuntu (Gnome) but as I can't live without the KDE music player amaroK (at least until Exaile! is more mature), I have installed amaroK using Add/Remote and it runs fine. However, (and didn't you just knew that there was a but coming next!) there are two things to bare in mind when running KDE applications on Gnome: 1. The look and feel of the application won't be the same as a native Gnome applications. This normally shouldn't be a problem, and the applications themselves are perfectly usable. 2. Because they have to load the KDE libraries, they will generally more memory hungry that the Gnome equivalents. I hope this is of some help/reassurance to you (because I'm aware that I'm just restating what has previously been posted).
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