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From: lee <lee@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:43:50
Message-Id: 87ege11tdv.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry? by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> writes:
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3 > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of
4 > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can
5 > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even after I've fiddled at some
6 > length with fonts and qt tweaks, including installing the noto fonts which
7 > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4.
8 >
9 > My question to the panel is: is this just a temporary stage of development,
10 > or are we going to have to live with it down the years?
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12 What you have there is, overall, like 85% (unnecessary) GUI and 15% the
13 content you're trying to see.
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15 You don't need to live with that. You could use fvwm or i3 and gnus or
16 mutt or seamonkey, for example.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>