Ubuntu with KDE vs Kubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Francisco Borges wrote:

> Install Kubuntu;
> and a certain KDE app is installed (say make sure KTorrent is
> installed - default KDE app for bittorrent.)
> install some gnome application (using aptitude), say a bittorrent client;
> 
> I don know about other people, but I would expect that KTorrent would
> remain being the default bittorrent client. But what happens is that
> the Gnome bittorrent client will be silently set to be the default.
> 
> I had this problem several times, and find it irritating.
> 
> Derek just sent an email talking about how a system ends up being
> neither one thing nor the other. Well my point is that I expect the
> setup of having KDE as my main desktop not to be ignored whenever I
> install something from Gnome. But that does not happen in practice.
> 
> It is this sort of thing that makes me think that makes me think about
> Kubuntu as an "unpolished" distribution.

I understand your point, but look at the opposite situation - I have
Kubuntu, but I know there's a better tool for a specific application in
Gnome (actually, I don't - I haven't ever found such a beast :-) ) - so I
install the Gnome app.  The mere fact that I have chosen to install an app
should logically mean I want that to be the default application for the
job.  I'd be just as annoyed if I had to manually make every non-KDE
application I have the default.

I _do_ wish I could automatically clean Gnome apps out of KDE - I installed
ubuntu-desktop a while back, just to see if gnome was getting any better,
and now getting rid of everything is tedious.
-- 
derek