@ gerard82

The point I was trying to make is first look at what is provided. Same as you, I prefer KDE, started with Mepis 3.7 some years ago. There was a time when Gnome was lighter on resources but I think there is not much in it these days, and yes GTK or Qt should work. I use the GTK gui for avidemux for example, just prefer the interface.

That screenshot I provided was in Fedora 16, just the regular gnome desktop and in accessories I found the supplied screenshot which works just the same as Ksnapshot.

I do know from experience that installing some very small KDE apps in gnome can incur a large overhead when all the KDE dependencies are pulled in. example the clipboard glipper is very average, klipper is better but pulls in MB's of dependencies. Just best to be aware of what you install.

BTW. If you want to splash out just a little cash, Nero linux beats k3b hands down.

Hi rich2005,
Using Gentoo for 8 years you become well aware of dependencies and what the consequences are.
Since everything is compiled for your hardware time to install is more of a drawback.
With most computers nowadays disk space is not a problem so a Gig more or less is no problem.
My / partition has 24 Gig of programs and files.I could whittle it down a couple of Gigs but am too lazy.
I've never used Nero so have no idea what it can do better than k3b.
Gerard.