Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 01 January 2016 11:33:32 lee wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> writes:
> > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen
> > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other
> > in qt5. You can see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even
> > after I've fiddled at some length with fonts and qt tweaks, including
> > installing the noto fonts which you see here. And the qt5 screen shot
> > is half as big again as the qt4.
> >
> > My question to the panel is: is this just a temporary stage of
> > development, or are we going to have to live with it down the years?
>
> What you have there is, overall, like 85% (unnecessary) GUI and 15% the
> content you're trying to see.
>
> You don't need to live with that.  You could use fvwm or i3 and gnus or
> mutt or seamonkey, for example.

I've tried other DEs and I still prefer KDE. And KMail is the best MUA I've 
found for POP3, which I intend to stick with.

-- 
Rgds
Peter