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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:15:37
Message-Id: 3315384.Vhq8PzLc1V@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Monday 11 Apr 2016 13:17:05 J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Monday, April 11, 2016 11:34:03 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 09 April 2016 11:12:51 Mick wrote:
4 > > > I noticed today that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon
5 > > > have
6 > > > to deal with it.
7 > >
8 > > I saw that too, and it cast a gloom over the rest of my day. I intend to
9 > > stick with KDE-4 until some more sensible themes become available in
10 > > Plasma
11 > > 5, so I hope someone will be keeping an archive of KDE-4 somewhere, as in
12 > > the earlier case of KDE 3 -> 4.
13 > >
14 > > Last time I searched for Plasma 5 themes (or design methods, in case I
15 > > might be able to create my own) I came up empty handed. My objection to
16 > > the available one is that it's just ugly: acres of wasted space
17 > > everywhere, and great blocks of solid colour, some of which are actually
18 > > buttons without looking like them. Nothing subtle or sophisticated about
19 > > it at all.
20 > >
21 > > If anyone can point me to a better theme I'll be grateful.
22 >
23 > You could try the following:
24 > http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/ocd-plasma5-theme?content=175772
25 >
26 > I am not fully convinced, but then again, I quite like "Breeze Dark" with
27 > "Air" so far. But still looking for a really nice one. (My design skills are
28 > non-existent)
29 >
30 > --
31 > Joost
32
33 It's all a bit flat and boring, at least for a desktop. However, I wouldn't
34 be surprised if the target audience is MSWindows users with Surface tablets.
35 What other reason would KDE devs have to imitate the aesthetic shift from
36 Windows 7 to Windows 10?
37
38 --
39 Regards,
40 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>