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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers KDE & Gnome, wat is the difference? Post 27448 by da_gee on Sunday 1st of September 2002 10:35:21 AM
Old 09-01-2002
Question KDE & Gnome, wat is the difference?

i have been reading some atticles but i still do not understand the diferrence btw KDE & Gnome. Someone once told me he prefers Gnome to KDE 'coz of it's audio support & Redhat says ver 7.3 has KDE 3.0 & Gnome 1.4. So could someone explain?
 

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KBUILDSYCOCA(8) 														   KBUILDSYCOCA(8)

NAME
Description - Rebuilds the system configuration cache. SYNOPSIS
kbuildsycoca [--nosignal | --incremental | --help | --help-qt | --help-kde | --help-all | --author | -v, --version | --license] DESCRIPTION
kbuildsyscoca, as part of the KDE command line tools ensures the proper operation of KDE by reading in all the .desktop, .directory, .kim- gio and .protocol files to constructs a binary database. KDE itself accesses this databse during operation to provide configurational information a program needs to run. This tool is part of ksyscoca, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache OPTIONS
--nosignal Don't signal applications --incremental Incremental Update --help Show help about options --help-qt Show Qt specific options --help-kde Show KDE specific options --help-all Show all options --author Show author information --version Show version information --license Show license information USAGE
A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt kbuildsyscoca FILES
/tmp/kde-$USER/ksyscoca ... ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
$KDEDIRS Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations SEE ALSO
ksycoca(3), kblah(4), knogga(6) BUGS
There are no known bugs at the time of writing. 2001-04-25 KBUILDSYCOCA(8)
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