Xfce and QT Apps..

Thorsten Grothe thorsten-grothe at freenet.de
Fri Mar 5 10:51:36 CET 2004


Brian J. Tarricone schrieb:

(...)

> qt apps are limited only by the need to load libqt.so (and any 
> dependencies).  kde apps are limited by the loading of any kde libs
> (if they aren't in memory already), and usually require things like 
> dcopserver (used for inter-process communication), which can take
> quite a while (relatively speaking) to start up.  i suppose you could
> start this at xfce startup (in ~/.xfce4/xinitrc perhaps), and
> anything else that might be needed.  i've never used kde, and i
> haven't had a need to try any of this, so it may not be possible to
> do this stuff on your own, but logic suggests otherwise...

Ok sounds logical. But I have no idea what libs I have to load at
startup :-)

> your other option, of course, is to find gtk apps to replace as many
>  qt/kde apps as you can.  of course, there will always be that app or
> two that you just can't part with...

Well I did that. But you're right there are some apps you cannot
replace. Knode is such an app, because it's an Newsreader I like very much!

Regards

Thorsten




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