On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:01 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I do wish I had the choice to have a gnome free (as in `rpm -qa | grep > gnome` returns no results). I wish the opposite, KDE free... But leaving that war aside for the moment, it is annoying anytime that you come across an application that depends on you having a particular GUI system. Even more so when you don't have it installed. It'd be far less annoying if it could just draw windows, use sound, etc., etc., from whatever system you're using. In the past I'd had a bit of a play with some of the more lightweight window managers, only to discover how pointless that was the moment you fired up some application that made use of Gnome or KDE. You had a big wait while all that baggage was loaded. And it makes your system sluggish, negating the benefit of using a lighter weight system. Not to mention if you fired up an application that decided it needed to take over your desktop. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
