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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:52:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5989101.UGf5eGTJXe@dell_xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570C0A3C.4040402@gmail.com>

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On Monday 11 Apr 2016 22:34:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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.

Yes!  I noticed that soon after KDE4 started having a blue shade on its window 
borders, so did e17.  Perhaps coding and innovation in creative design don't 
go hand in hand.  :p

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-09 10:12 [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable Mick
2016-04-09 15:35 ` Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2016-04-09 16:16   ` Marc Joliet
2016-04-09 21:42     ` Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2016-04-09 20:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-09 21:41   ` Mick
2016-04-09 22:08     ` Neil Bothwick
2016-04-10  7:09       ` Mick
2016-04-10  9:25         ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-11 10:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2016-04-11 11:17   ` J. Roeleveld
2016-04-11 18:15     ` Mick
2016-04-11 20:34       ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-11 20:52         ` Mick [this message]
2016-04-11 18:35   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2016-04-14 18:37   ` Michael Palimaka
2016-04-14 22:10     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-04-15 13:00       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2016-04-15 13:06         ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-15 13:09           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2016-04-15 13:18             ` Alan McKinnon
2016-04-15 15:23               ` »Q«

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