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   From: "Laszlo Lebrun"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: KDE in Ubuntu   
   Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:48:33 +0100   
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   Steve Thompson wrote:   
   > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:21:52 +0000, Paul-B wrote:   
   >   
   >> BlackTopBum wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Michael Fierro was all like, you know, and then said something like   
   >>> a ...   
   >>>   
   >>>> Wow, that's amazing to me. I run almost nothing but KDE apps. I   
   >>>> sometimes think I should really switch to KDE, but I love XFCE.   
   >>>> After a few minutes using something else, my fingers are itching   
   >>>> for XFCE's simplicity and speed. I would marry XFCE if it were a   
   >>>> woman, and I weren't already married.   
   >>>   
   >>> LOL, I'm just the opposite: xfce4 and no KDE apps - go figure. Mind   
   >>> you I'm not disrespecting KDE, it's that I prefer Gnome-ish apps   
   >>> A.K.A pan, Thunderbird, FireFox, Listen, GnomeBaker, gnucash, etc.,   
   >>> and then there's links2, xscreensaver ... all give me much fewer   
   >>> .xsession-errors than KDE apps do. Of course, one of the many   
   >>> beauties of Linux is that KDE users and Gnome users can use any mix   
   >>> as they prefer.   
   >>>   
   >>> And, yes, I'd marry XFCE4, too!   
   >>   
   >> Linux noob here. Just out of interest, how do you install something   
   >> like that on top of a standard Linux distro?. I'm making the looooong   
   >> move from Micro$haft stuff here, and am playing with Ubuntu and   
   >> PCLinuxOS (which I love)... is there somewhere I can find out how to   
   >> install something like XFCE on my setups?   
   >   
   > That's what Xbuntu is for. It's Ubuntu with Xfce windo manager.   
   >   
   Not really. It's also deeply fat-reduced.   
   My option (since i have no resource problem) Kubuntu + Thunar file manager    
   (the one from XFCE).   
   There are a lot of GUI system settings from KDE in Kubuntu I just don't want    
   to miss.    
      
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