[linux-audio-user] Re: rosegarden without KDE?

[Rob]

On Fri February 24 2006 11:36, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Yes, it is: Rosegarden doesn't need KDE (at least if the
> programmers did their job). It just needs kdelibs which is
> much smaller and faster to compile/install than whole KDE.

I don't know whether this means the programmers did their job or 
not, but when I fire up rosegarden on my machine, it launches 
kdeinit, dcopserver, and all that other cruft if it's not 
already running.  

So even if you're running GNOME or IceWM or whatever, you are 
also running KDE while you're running Rosegarden, just not the 
desktop, panel, et al.

I personally have no problem with that, because (1) I run KDE 
already and (2) Rosegarden has never been advertised as a 
lightweight anything, but I see their point.  I doubt other 
full-featured sequencer apps are much lighter.

Rob