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Bug#248868: marked as done (kde: new user default config is extraordinarily ugly)

Your message dated Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:10:48 +0100
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and subject line new user default config is extraordinarily ugly
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Package: kde
Version: 3.2.2-1
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-CC: fend@ailab.ch, gomez@ailab.ch

We installed two new KDE systems yesterday with
`apt-get install x-window-system kde`. This worked like a charm, but
when we logged in for the first time, the desktop was
extraordinarily ugly, for the following reasons:

  - the background looks like downtown houston[0], except more boring
  - thee desktop icon filenames have a shadow that makes them
    basically unreadable
  - font anti-aliasing is turned off, catapulting us back to the
    pixelised eighties, or earlier

it would be nice to have the default configuration be a little more
friendly to the retina. i suggest using the default_blue background,
which has become a KDE standard, to choose white text on clear
background without shadows for the desktop icons, and to turn
anti-aliasing on by default. the only argument against that, which
i can see, is performance. however, if that's a concern, then KDE is
not right in the first place, especially not 3.x.

0. no offence intended

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3-1-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15

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martin agrees to close it.

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