SOLVED: Re: (Dapper) Confusion = hybrid GNOME & KDE

[Sasha Tsykin]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
> Amusingly, the SAME problem also exists in KDE!
>   
very interesting, and weird. I'm sure the dev's will fix it soon.
> When I fire up KDE I don't get the GNOME application menu, BUT,
> Nautilus is used for some operations when you'd expect Konqueror to!
>   
try killall nautilus && konquerer and see what happens
> Likewise, some apps that are opened seem to adopt a very strange user
> interface (very small text) -- it is those apps that seem to be
> GNOMEish in KDE. For example, I installed VLC player (I wanted to play
> MPEGs on my PPC Mac... couldn't make much sense of the restricted
> formats Ubuntu wiki so I simply installed the tried-tested-and-true
> poison that I know works under OS X... there didn't seem to be a
> gstreamer application in Synaptic, just a myriad of plugins _for_ the
> gstreamer application).
>   
the gstreamer player is not available through the repositories, but 
totem use gstreamer 0.10 as a backend, so type sudo apt-get install 
totem-gtreamer gstreamer-0.10* and you will be able to play mpegs in 
totem. Alternatively you can type

mkdir tmp
wget -c 
http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20050412.tar.bz2
tar xvjf all-20050412.tar.bz2
cd all-20050412
sudo -s
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
cp * /usr/local/lib/codecs
chmod 775 /usr/local/lib/codecs
mkdir /usr/lib/win32
cp /usr/local/lib/codecs/* /usr/lib/win32
exit
cd ../../
rm -Rf tmp

and MPlayer and Xine will now be able to play mpeg's and just about 
anything else too.

Also, to make VLC use the KDE theme instead of the gnome one, just go to 
the K Control Centre and force GTK applications to use the KDE themes.
> Anyway, I think I'll leave the bug as is (i.e. not removing System -
> Prefs - Sessions - Startup Programs stuff) and see if it gets fixed in
> an update.
>   
That's not to do with startup programs. That is to do with preferred 
applications, so that is what you'd need to change.
> If the problem persists I'll post a bug report (I was lazy that way
> too when Breezy was in beta... I'd wait a few days to see if the
> problem "went away" but if it didn't then I'd make the bug report).
>   
no real need. It seems to be a prevalent problem, and seems to be more a 
glitch than anything else, I'm certain the devs already know about it.
> Eric.
>   
Sasha