Re: Integrating a Qt application with both desktops

[Roberto Alsina <ralsina conectiva com ar>]

On 17 Nov 2000, Steinar Bang wrote:

> Now the things I'm wondering, are: will adding the KDE support make the 
> application run right on a gnome desktop as well?

Yes, as long as KDE is installed.
 
> Or do I need to detect what desktop is running, and do calls from the
> Gnome API (and linking with the gnome libraries as well)?

This would probably bloat your app a lot.
 
> Is it even possible to detect what desktop is running?

It was easier with KDE 1.x and GNOME. I am not sure it can be done on 2.0

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