Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Albert Wagner]

On 06/10/2012 08:04 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:11:26 -0500
> Albert Wagner<albertwagner at cox.net>  wrote:
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>> Do you have an installation
>> of Kubuntu?  Did you click on the Muon Package Manager?  When you
>> filtered with gtk you should have displayed most components that
>> utilize one of the gtk tool kits, 2 or 3.  Not only are the gnome 3
>> components there but also most gnome 2 components.  You should also
>> have noticed the category in the left column "Gnome Desktop
>> Environment".  As an exercise you might also filter for "gnome",
>> "lxde" and "xfce".  Quite a lot of crap tucked in there under the
>> name Kubuntu, eh?  Are you surprised to see "Gnome Desktop
>> Environment"?
> This is the only email on this thread I am going to address, and *only*
> this aspect of it.
>
> Gnome is a desktop environment. KDE is a desktop environment. LXDE,
> XFCE are desktop environments.
>
> You can run Gnome applications on KDE. You can run KDE applications on
> Gnome (or under LXDE, or XFCE, for that matter). All that happens is the
> pre-req libraries are also installed.
>
> On Muon, Synaptics, apt-get, aptitude, whatever package manager you
> use, if you have all the standard repositories enabled you will see
> *ALL* that is available for Ubuntu. Whatever desktop environment. Or
> console only. But this does not make KDE a Gnome
> application/environment, or Gnome a KDE application/environment.
Thank you.  I couldn't have said it better.

>
> Cheers,
>
> ..C..
>
> p.s. Now, please, can this thread die?
I can only answer for myself.  But sure.  And thanks again.

p.s I don't know how long Robert and Liam will try to keep it up by 
themselves.
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