Re: kde-sunset

<[email protected]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 01:24:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Donnerstag, 05.12.2013 um 16:52
schrieb Brent Busby <[email protected]>:

> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Serghei Amelian wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 05 December 2013 19:09:17 Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> KDE 3.5 in general and kde-sunset as well is horribly outdated and
> >> >> broken. There is no rational reason to not use KDE4 these days.
> >> >> >> plasma-workspaces-4.11 enjoys long term support and is
> >> >> >> exactly what >> you are looking for. It doesn't look or
> >> >> >> behave much different than >> 3.5 anyway. Verdict: Don't
> >> >> >> make yourself unhappy.
> >
> > Well, I'm a happy KDE 3.5 user :) KDE4 still just sux, bloated and
> > uncomfortable.
> 
> I'm one of those odd birds that actually enjoys the look and feel of
> traditional UNIX desktops (CDE/Motif/OpenLook/Athena/etc.).  Most
> people cringe at it, I know, but I like it and won't accept anything
> else.
> 
> On KDE 3, it was possible to setup an extremely convincing and
> attractive (to people like me) imitation of CDE.  Attempting to do
> this on KDE 4 falls far short.
> 

I made a CDE theme for icewm many years ago and was very happy with it.

Regards