[ale] Switching from KDE to Gnome

[Jim Philips]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:33 pm, ringo wrote:
> Thanks, I'll dig around in Yast for a while. Here is why I'm talking
> about switching to Gnome.
> I'm working on a robot that is controlled by a laptop via the serial
> port. I'm writing the code in C. I would like to start doing some basic
> graphics so I can draw a mp of where the robot has been. Just grids or a
> 2d array of rectangles, that sort of thing. Since I have a lot of stuff
> already written in C I would rather not switch langs to python or
> something and have to start over. I have a book called "Beginning Linux
> Programming" That covers TCL, perl, etc. The only thing I have seen so
> far that is in C if Gnome-GTK. The book says you have to be running
> gnome to use it. I tried compiling a sample program from a KDE terminal
> window and it could not find things like gnome.h.
> So, I'm assuming I need to use gnome for this to work, is this correct?
> Is there another easy way to do some easy graphics and Gui stuff? I'm a
> hardware guy, not a programmer so the easier the better.
> Thanks
> Ringo

Well, first of all, you don't have to switch windowing environments to use 
Gnome-GTK. If you have everything installed properly, you can use any Gnome 
application while KDE is running. And the reverse is also true.