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On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the desktop/plasma |
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> profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. |
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> I don't. |
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> I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of |
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> KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can |
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> see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even after I've fiddled at some |
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> length with fonts and qt tweaks, including installing the noto fonts which |
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> you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. |
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> My question to the panel is: is this just a temporary stage of development, |
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> or are we going to have to live with it down the years? |
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A lot of what you see there is not Qt itself, but the theme. |
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The modern trend in gui elements is to make them less busy, use more |
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whitespace and try to display on thing on the screen at a time (less for |
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the user to focus on). You can see this for yourself: look at typical |
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web sites over the last 15 years, then compare how gui elements are done |
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in kde3, 4 and now 5. You will see a pattern. It's also in OSes and |
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toolkits: gnome, macs, windows since 8. And on your tablets and phone. |
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The Qt5 theme you are looking at reflects this general trend. |
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I have not found a Qt5 theme that looks Qt4-esque, but it's totally |
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possible to do it. |
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I think in your case, you should go back to Qt4 until a quality theme is |
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available for Qt5 that you like. Do keep in mind that Qt4 is already a |
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good distance down the end-of-life process so you will have to switch to |
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Qt5 some time (but not today or tomorrow) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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