Hello, I'm new to these forums and to Linux and I'm making my change step by step.
Sorry if this question has been asked before

Currently I'm downloading various distros but I think my final choice will be between Ubuntu/Kubuntu since them are the easies compilations for beginners.

My question as stated in the topic is: will Ktorrent run on Gnome?
Sorry if this sound stupid but the motto says clearly BitTorrent client for KDE.

From what I saw seems lot of Linux apps are dependant whether you're running KDE or Gnome.

Thanks for any help!
Martín

It will run on Gnome, obviously. It probably won't be as integrated with the whole desktop as it'd be in KDE, running KDE apps in Gnome will also cause KDE libs to be loaded in the memory - something to watch out for if you're short on RAM.

So those are the things to watch!

Cool, thanks a lot for such a swift answer lucke

Also a program is able to run on either desktop as long as you have installed the needed packages. For ktorrent it is kde-base and kde-lib. Make sure you get the dev versions of those programs.

I try to run KTorrent in Gnome. But i have problems with importing (partially) downloaded torrents. (See my topic.) Seems like noone has an idea how to solve it and i can't find a solution either. So probably i will look for a Gnome equivalent.

Hi guys, thanks for your info.

I have several years on computer scene -since 8-bit era- and I think right now is the time for me to leave this fu***ng Window$ which I dislike a lot all my life and jump to Linux, that's why I post such answer, I really don't know a thing about Linux, only the basics.

Right now I'm downloading various distros and after testing them I will see which one I take: Gentoo, Fedora, Mandriva, Freespire, Ubuntu/Kub and Xubuntu, Sun Solaris, Debian, OpenSUSE, NexentaOS and BeleniX (OpenSolaris core) - and any other distro I can put my dirty hands on!

So I will post in some time my conclusions about how Ktorrent performs on these systems with KDE and Gnome.

Thanks again, stay in touch.

Martin
Mar del Plata / Argentina

If you're quite a computer-savvy person, Martin, and you want to know the world of Linux from the ground up, you might jump right into the deep water and try Arch Linux. To say the least, it's rarely people's first distro (at least for the reason it isn't really that well-known), but very often it's people's last distro in the process known as distro hopping. Read the [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/wiki[/url]and especially [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide]Beginner's Guide[/url] if you're interested. You'll learn a lot along the way, surely.

If you want to start it in an easy, hand-holding way, distros like (K)Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandriva, Fedora, PCLinuxOS are indeed the way to go. If you really want to have control over your PC, you will end up with Arch or Gentoo anyway sooner or later, probably.

tkrisz1, two GTK+ programs that come to my mind are Deluge and Transmission. They aren't really Gnome software, but at least the toolkit makes them a bit closer ;-)

lucke wrote:If you really want to have control over your PC, you will end up with Arch or Gentoo anyway sooner or later, probably.

What about Slackware?? The slogan is once you go slack, you don't go back...

tkrisz1, two GTK+ programs that come to my mind are Deluge and Transmission. They aren't really Gnome software, but at least the toolkit makes them a bit closer

Or you could always go with Azureus, since you can get java for just about any distro... just be wary of the resources it will consume.

Hi guys

Thanks lucke I already know about it and same with Slackware (and Damn Small Linux).

But far from experimenting with those OS -a thing a like a lot and will do when I have a little more time to spare- I need right now a distro which can give me the same functionality as I have with Window$ - actually I hope a better functionality.

I mean, I need to copy DVDs, use my Epson printers, and so on. In fact, the "so on" part is already met since I can play and edit multimedia, chat, browse web, etc. with any distro, but DVD copy and printers support is first priority... of course with a friendly GUI because I don't have time right now to learn any criptic command line instructions and it's arguments, as I did back in good old times with DOS, ARJ compressor, .BAT coding and so on, you know

Cheers!

bassmadrigal and tkrisz1 thanx for posting guys and let me learn even more!


If Administrator thinks so I can give for closed and satisfied this discussion.

I'll be in touch =)
Best,
Martín

K3B is my preferred app to burn CD's and DVD's, so you might want to take a look at that.

Hi George,

THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH for your kind post =)

George wrote:K3B is my preferred app to burn CD's and DVD's, so you might want to take a look at that.

I'm glad the subject came up. I've been searching the web for a program to help me with DVD's but spend most of my time just giving the computer screen blank stares. Graphics is not my thing. I have no idea what all those codecs, formats and other acronym stuff is, so trying to understand even the base capabilities of most of those programs has been a lot of time spent for little progress made. I need something that I don't have to be an expert to use. And I would prefer to do it with Ubuntu 7.10. So I tracked down the home page for K3B and Googled for other refrences for K3B. Unfortunately, I didn't understand the info on the K3B home page any better.

At the moment, I only need to do two things:
1) I want to take a number of AVI files and make a disk that I can play on a standard TV DVD player.

2) I have a DVD-Recorder (not something you hook up to a computer - think VCR replacement). It is like a standard DVD player, but it also records (with no hard drive). It will, for example, record several TV episodes on a disk, just like a VCR will record several episodes on a tape. It creates disks with files that look like the files you see on a commercial movie DVD and you can put that disk in any TV DVD player and watch what is recorded. Unfortunately, those files don't seem to match up well with the particular recorded episodes that will replay. I want to be able to use my computer to select a single episode from one disk and combine it with episodes from other disks to create a new disk that looks as if I had originally recorded each episode to the new disk. And I want to play the new disk on a standard TV DVD player.

Ideally, I want to treat each episode like a single file: Just pick up the episodes I want from each DVD and drop them in a directory on the hard drive. (I don't even care about editing out the commercials.) Then copy several of those episodes from the directory to a new disk. Take that disk to any TV DVD player and enjoy!

Am I asking for too much? Will K3B do what I want?

Good question picker, I'm new to the scene so I'm anxious about this special answer.

1/ martosurf : i was using gentoo for 3 years and it's the best for me but it needs hours to compile softwares and my PC is kind of grand'pa now so i turned back to my old friend debian wich is for me the best binary distro (add the debian-multimedia repository to source list and enjoy ! )

2/ for DVD burning K3B is really nice and user friendly, and for ripping i use DVDRIP. For video editing : avidemux can do everithing possible.

Welcome on linux ! have fun

Hi deufre!

I'm indeed downloading every distro I come across, Debian is one of them.
This weekend will be the "Distro Fest", don't ask for me... I'll be buried in my bedroom chained to the computer

And thanks a lot for the DVD info

Best,
Martin
Mar del Plata