Dumb Question

[Benedikt Meurer]

Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> I will be grabbing XFCE when it comes out in final form this weekend.  Being a 
> belt-and-suspenders type (very risk averse) I have an elementary question 
> before I start:
> 
> I notice that there are two installers for XFCE.  One is for XFCE and the 
> other is for GTK+XFCE engine.  What is the difference between the two?  I 
> don't think I need both.

The gtk2-xfce-engine-installer contains the Xfce Gtk+ Theme Engine, 
whereas the xfce4-installer contains the Xfce Desktop. They are separate 
because the Gtk+ Theme Engine has to be installed in the same prefix as 
Gtk+ itself, whereupon Xfce can be installed basicly everywhere on your 
system.

> Thanks
> dj tuchler

HTH,
Benedikt