Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2243 mails)

[Jerry Houston <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 February 2009 02:20:18 G T Smith wrote:
> AFAIK There is no reason that KMail should not run on a desktop other
> than KDE provided the right libraries are in place but (and it is a very
> big but) this is not something I have ever tried out.

I have, and it works fine.  One of my machines here has started locking up at 
random times.  It's on 11.1 x64 with KDE 4.2.  At first, I only noticed it when 
I was viewing a video.  Everything would stop for a while (mouse and keyboard 
included), then mysteriously restart.  Eventually, though, the lockups started 
lasting long enough that I had to shut down the machine to get it going again.

In order to watch the rest of the videos in that series (some MotoGP races I'd 
missed last year), I tried a Gnome session, and everything just worked fine.  
While in Gnome (no idea what version), I launched KMail, and had no problems 
with it at all.  Same with Firefox.  It knew about all my add-ons and recorded 
Deja-click macros.

I'm just going to leave that machine running Gnome until I have the time and 
patience to figure out what appears to be a KDE-based problem.  My apps are all 
there and working fine.  And, truth be told, Gnome isn't bad at all.  For some 
reason -- maybe because it seemed more familiar -- I've used KDE for a long 
time, but once I'd figured out a few basic differences in the way they work, I 
found that I can do just as well with Gnome as I can with KDE.

The applications I use don't seem to care a bit, so it makes sense to use what 
works better.
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