KDE and GNOME apps

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 8 Feb 2005, at 14:04, Paul Howarth wrote:

>>> Most computers have both GTK and QT installed, but it is not 
>>> required.
>>>
>>> If QT is installed, any KDE application should run.  If GTK is
>>> installed, any GNOME application should run.  However, this rule is
>>> not hard and fast.
>> Uh?
>> Having installed both GNOME and KDE base libraries, I have yet to 
>> find any application that refuses to work properly when working in 
>> any of those desktop environments. For me, K3B works fine whether I'm 
>> an a GNOME desktop session or a KDE session. In fact, I happen to 
>> spend most of the time under GNOME and tend to burn CD/DVDs using 
>> K3B.
>
> This is not inconsistent with what Kevin said.
>
> If you have installed packages from RPMs (this includes using yum or 
> apt etc.) without using --nodeps or --force, RPMs dependency handling 
> should have taken care of all the requirements, i.e. if a package is 
> installed, it should be able to run because all of the libraries it 
> requires should be there.

Yeah, but what amuses me is the "However, this rule is not hard and 
fast". Don't know what he really means.