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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:23:43
Message-Id: 4957570.CLvAtH5Wjt@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry? by Frank Steinmetzger
1 On Thursday 31 December 2015 12:34:26 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
2 > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen
4 > > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other
5 > > in qt5. You can see how much less compact the qt5 version is,
6 > > [...]
7 > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4.
8 >
9 > I don't quite get that.
10
11 ??
12
13 > > My question to the panel is: is this just a temporary stage of
14 > > development, or are we going to have to live with it down the years?
15 >
16 > I suppose it's all about the theme and its definition of margins. I
17 > dabbled with KF5 last weekend on Arch linux and also find all KDE window
18 > decorators except for good'ol Plastic to bee too wasteful with space.
19 > OTOH I'm considering bying a laptop soon with 12.5 inch and am still
20 > undecided on the resolution (125 or 176 DPI).
21 >
22 > Be thankful we don't have a compulsoliry touch-oriented UI. ;-P
23
24 A small mercy, indeed. :)
25
26 --
27 Rgds
28 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry? Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>