Compatibility and Interoperability Issues
Although there are some major issues with using some applications made for KDE on GNOME and vice versa, they are likely to be ironed out in the future. Some desktop environments and window managers claim that they support applications made for other desktop environments explicitly. For example, Fluxbox states KDE support in its feature list. Using software made specifically for the desktop environment in use or window manager agnostic software is a way to avoid these issues. For software developers, the Portland Project has released a set of common interfaces that allows applications to integrate across many desktop environments.
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