On Sunday 09 May 2004 15.53, Sid Boyce wrote:

Daniel Secareanu wrote:

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Greetings all...

I have not checked if this subject was discussed already on the list so pls bear with me :) I wonder if any of you have common desktop items in both KDE and Gnome and if there is any way of going around this... I mean I have both trash-es, the KDE links in Gnome and the Start Here link from Gnome in KDE... Maybe SuSE should think about creating gDesktop and kDesktop in order to keep these items separated... Thank you.

Daniel

Most people need to access both kde and gnome apps from either, like I need to access gnomemeeting from kde. All the wisdom has been asking for a common desktop or at least they should be interoperable, so both groups are working on that and X.org's development is geared to making that easier also. It makes sense to be able to pick which apps to use whatever desktop you are running, that's the way forward, SuSE/KDE/GNOME/Ximian for a large part are all under the Novell umbrella now. Regards Sid.

I think the point is the icons that both desktop environments create. The Nautilus icons can't be run in kde, and gnome has no idea about what to do with the KDE trash can. I think it will be better with the new versions of both gnome and kde though, as at least in gnome 2.6, those nautilus icons are entirely virtual, so won't be around to cause confusion in KDE, and I think KDE is doing something similar