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From: wabenbau@×××××.com
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] kde-sunset
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 02:13:14
Message-Id: 20131214012423.220df5e1@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] kde-sunset by Brent Busby
1 Am Donnerstag, 05.12.2013 um 16:52
2 schrieb Brent Busby <brent@×××××××××.org>:
3
4 > On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Serghei Amelian wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Thursday 05 December 2013 19:09:17 Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
7 > >
8 > > [...]
9 > >
10 > >> KDE 3.5 in general and kde-sunset as well is horribly outdated and
11 > >> >> broken. There is no rational reason to not use KDE4 these days.
12 > >> >> >> plasma-workspaces-4.11 enjoys long term support and is
13 > >> >> >> exactly what >> you are looking for. It doesn't look or
14 > >> >> >> behave much different than >> 3.5 anyway. Verdict: Don't
15 > >> >> >> make yourself unhappy.
16 > >
17 > > Well, I'm a happy KDE 3.5 user :) KDE4 still just sux, bloated and
18 > > uncomfortable.
19 >
20 > I'm one of those odd birds that actually enjoys the look and feel of
21 > traditional UNIX desktops (CDE/Motif/OpenLook/Athena/etc.). Most
22 > people cringe at it, I know, but I like it and won't accept anything
23 > else.
24 >
25 > On KDE 3, it was possible to setup an extremely convincing and
26 > attractive (to people like me) imitation of CDE. Attempting to do
27 > this on KDE 4 falls far short.
28 >
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30 I made a CDE theme for icewm many years ago and was very happy with it.
31
32 Regards