Does Krusader need KDE to run?
No, Krusader does not need the KDE window manager to run on your computer but Krusader’s natural environment is KDE, because it relies on services provided by the KDE base libraries. Only some shared libraries are needed e.g. KDE libraries, Qt™ libraries, etc. This means that Krusader runs on GNOME, AfterStep, XFce and other window managers provided the approriate libraries are installed on your computer. All this is not a problem since the apt-get world can resolve these dependencies instantly. You do not need to switch to the KDE window manager to use Krusader; you can still use GNOME, AfterStep, XFce or another window manager. However, the configuration of the Krusader fonts and some behavior is done by running kcontrol. A lot depends on what you want to do with Krusader. You should know that Krusader uses the KDE KIO Slaves to access remote file systems, and support for only a limited number of file system types are shipped with KDE libraries, most of the KIO Slave are bundled with
