Re: [OT] Two Kinds of Linux Runners

On 2008-02-11, Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Newton wrote:

On 2008-02-11, Beej Jorgensen <beej@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Newton <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been doing some research on the Web. Apparently, *All* KDE
applications can be run without KDE if you have the KDE libs installed.

What are you saying? That it's ok to run K apps as long as you're not
running KDE?

It's okay to run anything you want. Obviously.

But those of us who know Linux rather than knowing KDE, generally
prefer to use independent applications.

Doesn't matter if they are also used in a collection of apps like
KDE or not.


You obviously have no clue about this

Yes I do.


But keep on believing that Gimp and/or Firefox are CLI apps because you can
start them from the CLI.

How else would you define a CLI (command line) app?

Not one limited to a non-X environment. My CLI happens to be in an xterm.
And all the apps on my box that don't run in the background are displayed
in X windows.

But the main thing here is that you are missing my point, which
is that it doesn't matter if you call an app from a colorful,
graphical menu (such as those found in so-called "graphical
desktop environments") by clicking on it with a mouse, from a
simple, ascii, bash menu in an xterm by entering a number, or by
typing the name, or an alias for it, on the command line.

All those methods work just fine and will call the same apps.

Some are much more efficient than others...


Heck, *all* my graphical apps are like that...

No kidding.

"Console apps" is the term I would use to describe apps that don't
need the X environment. the GUI, to function.

Easy on the insults if you want me to continue reading your posts.
They aren't necessary and I won't put up with it.

Talk respectfully or talk to someone else.

Tom

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