Getting GNOME settings applied for GNOME apps in KDE sessions
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Dec 30 13:25:23 UTC 2007
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta <at> iki.fi> writes:
>> Where should this be fixed? Shouldn't GNOME apps that use settings
>> governed
>> by the daemon get the daemon running if needed? Can't GNOME apps be made
>> to
>> look semi decent (eg. no broken icons) without the daemon running? What
>> if
>> gnome-settings-daemon isn't even installed? Should KDE start
>> gnome-settings-daemon when a session starts?
>
> I guess we should be checking if gnome-settings-daemon is installed and
> running it if it is, in an autostart script in kdebase(-workspace) or
> kde-settings. But I'll discuss this with the other KDE SIG folks.
IMO, this isn't a "kde"-specific problem per-se, this same issue will arise
using any desktop != gnome. To me, begs the question, why don't gnome
apps "just work" when launched outside of a gnome environment?
-- Rex
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