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

[Rob]

On Fri February 24 2006 15:24, fons adriaensen wrote:
> And you can't even disable this madness except via
> the KDE 'control center'. Why should I even consider
> running that when I don't use KDE ?

I've had the problem in the other direction; there used to be a 
program called "switch" that would let you change the style and 
font of all Gtk/GNOME apps without running GNOME's control 
center, but if it's still around it's not packaged by Mandriva 
and gnome-control-center just brings up a blank window under 
KDE.

GNOME is wed to gconf and KDE is wed to a million little files 
under the .kde directory (which is fine with me, because I'd 
rather lose the settings for one app if power goes out or 
something than all of my apps at once.... c.f. Windows 
registry.)  They both need to take their heads out of their 
asses and compromise on some single config repository with 
commonly named settings shared across both desktops.

I'm too used to little niceties like drag and drop menu items and 
being able to go "fish://username@somehost" to browse files on 
other machines (via SSH) to give up the modern desktop 
environments, but I am tempted at times to move back to IceWM 
anyway.  There sure would be a lot less unexpected CPU hogging 
when I'm trying to record audio that way.

Rob