[ale] Switching from KDE to Gnome

[James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com (James Taylor)]

As previously mentioned, you don't have to run Gnome to use the Gnome libraries.  Just install the complete Gnome system including development libraries.  It's all onthe DVD/CDs that come with SuSE.  Just run YaST:Install/Remove Software. 

-jt 
 


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
678-697-9420


>>>jimmyc at speedfactory.net 03/03/05 5:59 am >>> 
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:33 pm, ringo wrote: 
>Thanks, I'll dig around in Yast for a while. Here is why I'm talking 
>about switching to Gnome. 
>I'm working on a robot that is controlled by a laptop via the serial 
>port. I'm writing the code in C. I would like to start doing some basic 
>graphics so I can draw a mp of where the robot has been. Just grids or a 
>2d array of rectangles, that sort of thing. Since I have a lot of stuff 
>already written in C I would rather not switch langs to python or 
>something and have to start over. I have a book called "Beginning Linux 
>Programming" That covers TCL, perl, etc. The only thing I have seen so 
>far that is in C if Gnome-GTK. The book says you have to be running 
>gnome to use it. I tried compiling a sample program from a KDE terminal 
>window and it could not find things like gnome.h. 
>So, I'm assuming I need to use gnome for this to work, is this correct? 
>Is there another easy way to do some easy graphics and Gui stuff? I'm a 
>hardware guy, not a programmer so the easier the better. 
>Thanks 
>Ringo 
 
Well, first of all, you don't have to switch windowing environments to use 
Gnome-GTK. If you have everything installed properly, you can use any Gnome 
application while KDE is running. And the reverse is also true. 
 
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