From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9916259CB1 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:34:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9450E21C07A; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com (mail-wm0-f66.google.com [74.125.82.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A51021C001 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f66.google.com with SMTP id a140so284546wma.2 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:34:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8cGErcUnbHzCXBUJAnOLBFCJGw52WP0MuGEHvudyHAs=; b=IGG9UVenrKB3OGKFGCLcIK6P7P6pLFyHyhEOSl6tFav41T02JSqNa4U3Vme3ZWPftd 5s2o9hKJZFxOiFbfpxfGvWb6atCFEhO6QzIva50xKUPFiBjWebp7WXsV0JsqqUVOmYHY ykZxOA/2y1R8HkIfRrzyu0DzEni0g3ImCJ+x7SM6icf2pKqhGLDvqlQA1HI3z1zUIekx D2jj/SRN4zq+tharm26ZUFj+lu+9pkW3QhH/CK+/BRYYoteNPlhTCE9ykxYR0OmiWBmb jgHHB7eLMxEatEGXcdfdW0vBD7GTPBsO8NeJ/n/KBMI8y9a3n+50gfszIyb9vLUjA07t fz5Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8cGErcUnbHzCXBUJAnOLBFCJGw52WP0MuGEHvudyHAs=; b=YdMtWqpxxAivPcdJGI4ulfwJoKE/ux5knPMM+ih9as2NKucdnMPT05U+6WDYP9WaFj 7CzQCL5eIcH7pz0Xg+mIwu8z2gXcXfsdWBbYkNbIyraI8ZbFx5tEGRZSqdbpzVykJkGy 4TdChsjyyjQIS9Wau7O6Zi+qVgXF7cCkNKcyCQdZ4Q75Ip3Mf0jqucLu78tlaxNOio77 DP8H7qP88K5CIW5mcVvknFEjIPrsBhfgAJxzkG8eT1l2cCZNfcAg8UCqile/mESoWsuG 8coLI83/Y0CIr0NnD7mh+/EqdtIDxfHAm8cxNVGCUmFW/0sbfeD9OGfXpjM+wb7py2Rw lJFQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJLuaJTOz/pCeIkg2H82O1c7b63twYDa+s8qfwnGO54j4fl0kvs9Pcdn2ZOhGj5t/A== X-Received: by 10.194.243.226 with SMTP id xb2mr25634629wjc.35.1460406848645; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([165.255.112.141]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id xx3sm29674404wjc.32.2016.04.11.13.34.06 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <7092103.CoiRbtlI63@dell_xps> <2326043.zQtSa0zLip@nvme> <1680168.0CvKxsCYuM@andromeda> <3315384.Vhq8PzLc1V@dell_xps> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <570C0A3C.4040402@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:34:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3315384.Vhq8PzLc1V@dell_xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a7ce5081-b961-4b67-b8d5-3fcbfe8a534b X-Archives-Hash: 0d0a272b3a2bdea75cc7e8ef1783390d 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. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com