Hi,
How to add to the bar a kde applet?
I installed kmoon (kde moon applet), I am running gnome, how to activate it.
thanks
bela

kde applets are designed for, surprise!, kde, not gnome. AFAIK, they just aren't compatible with the gnome taskbar.

It is possible, however, to run the kde 'kicker' as a separate program while in gnome, so you can have your kde taskbars and any applets installed on them. They won't integrate very well with the gnome environment though, and they'll use whatever configuration you have set up in kde.

You might be better off if you simply use glunarclock (the gnome lunar clock applet) instead when in gnome.

Thanks,
I know glunar does something like kmoon, but this is a general question, since there are lot of kde applets which have not necessary equivalent on gnome and vice versa.


So I would take advantage of both .

You mean just run kicker from terminal ? How to use it

best regards
bela

Hello
I run gnome for long time with all the kde apps in gnome taskbar. it works perfect.
bertil

Ah, but aren't applets != applications.

I wonder how hard it is to convert a kde app to gnome and vice versa. How interchangable are gtk and qt? Can you give me an example of a very simple kde applet for which there is no gnome equivalent? I feel tempted to play.

It's way past time that there was some way to use kde/gnome applets in the opposite environment. There's just always going to be an applet or two from the other environment that a user is going to wish he had available, even if there's an equivalent available.

I think a better idea than working to make single applets compatible would be to develop a "(g|k)applet container" applet, that you could place on the toolbar and then load applets from the other environment into. That would be the most convenient and most complete solution for most people, I believe, and it would probably be easier to develop in the long run.