I thought one of the main strengths of the OS was that you could run Gnome apps if you were using KDE or vice versa, provided of course that you had the Gnome libraries loaded.
Applications yes, but both DEs have their own panel, which can have special mini-applications called applets embedded within them. There is also the freedesktop.org "Notification Area" standard, which both DEs support, but this is for icons that can be used to control full applications (like the System Tray in a certain less-free strain of OSs) -- James Ogley, UNIX Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 www.pinnacle.co.uk Personal: james@rubberturnip.org.uk www.rubberturnip.org.uk Updated GNOME packages for SUSE LINUX: www.usr-local-bin.org