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From GNOME to KDE and back again: old computing habits are hard to break

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT
COMMENTARY -- I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE desktop I'd faced every morning for so many years. Last January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a few weeks, I went back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a better desktop than KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to GNOME that it's hard for me to give it up?

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kbuildsycoca

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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