Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 11/04/2016 20:15, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 11 Apr 2016 13:17:05 J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On Monday, April 11, 2016 11:34:03 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Saturday 09 April 2016 11:12:51 Mick wrote:
>>>> I noticed today that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon
>>>> have
>>>> to deal with it.
>>>
>>> I saw that too, and it cast a gloom over the rest of my day. I intend to
>>> stick with KDE-4 until some more sensible themes become available in
>>> Plasma
>>> 5, so I hope someone will be keeping an archive of KDE-4 somewhere, as in
>>> the earlier case of KDE 3 -> 4.
>>>
>>> Last time I searched for Plasma 5 themes (or design methods, in case I
>>> might be able to create my own) I came up empty handed. My objection to
>>> the available one is that it's just ugly: acres of wasted space
>>> everywhere, and great blocks of solid colour, some of which are actually
>>> buttons without looking like them. Nothing subtle or sophisticated about
>>> it at all.
>>>
>>> If anyone can point me to a better theme I'll be grateful.
>>
>> You could try the following:
>> http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/ocd-plasma5-theme?content=175772
>>
>> I am not fully convinced, but then again, I quite like "Breeze Dark" with
>> "Air" so far. But still looking for a really nice one. (My design skills are
>> non-existent)
>>
>> --
>> Joost
> 
> It's all a bit flat and boring, at least for a desktop.  However, I wouldn't 
> be surprised if the target audience is MSWindows users with Surface tablets.  
> What other reason would KDE devs have to imitate the aesthetic shift from 
> Windows 7 to Windows 10? 
> 


Or maybe it's just fashion, like garments and shoes.

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Alan McKinnon
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