[TriLUG] Gnome configuration

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Tue Dec 9 16:53:17 EST 2003


Janyne Kizer wrote:

> It's needed for login and apparently for the task manager as well. We 
> have elected not to roll our own KDE.

What about kdm or the task manager uses it?  I know Qt links it in
by default and because of that kde will link with it, but it seems
to me, especially if you're using an rpm based distribution, that
this wouldn't be too difficult to overcome.  You talk about "rolling
your own" KDE, but I think you overstate it quite a bit.  Especially
for system administrators, why even bother to use open source software
if all you want to do is use prepackaged stuff?  "Tweaking" someone
else's packages is extremely easy.  I even covered it in the rpm
presentation I gave a while back.
(http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/presentations/rpm/)

Cheers,
Tanner
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