Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...
> No - that is the problem!! I loved KDE 3.5.x and have become quite slick with
> it. KDE 4 is different. I don't like it. If I have to, in effect, change
> DE, and go through the learning curve again, there is no reason why it would
> have to be to KDE 4.
This is a very valid point that seems to be lost on some devs. Other
than the logo, not much is the same between KDE 3 and 4. I will
contend that moving to KDE 4 would be no different that moving to any
other DE. You will notice that I've never pressured you to move to KDE
4, I have only pressured you to tell me what is problematic in KDE 4.
I do that for the simple reason that I help improve KDE 4, and to
bring it up to par with KDE 3. I do not think that any other desktop
has the ambition to be what KDE 3 was.
> When the time comes that I cannot sensibly go on using
> KDE 3, I shall chose where I go next on the basis of what the options are
> looking like at the time.
That is wise, and you might enjoy Gnome Shell, that will become Gnome
3. It is very different from KDE 3, but a lot of people really love
it.
> I can see little liklihood that that choice will
> be KDE 4. I may even switch to a window manager without a DE, and chose
> other ways of working, if that is the only way that I can avoid the glitz
> that is now all the rage.
>
You will have to better define "glitz". Assuming that you mean
composting, then if your intention is to avoid the glitz, you can do
that in KDE 4. In fact, I think that even XFCE comes with composting
support and integration.
> How things look is very important to me. I have problems with my eyes, and
> how a thing looks can influence whether I can work on a thing for one minute,
> ten minutes or an hour.
>
Then you will have to adjust the default settings of any DE, KDE is
not exception here.
> I have no problem with other people liking and wanting to use KDE 4. I have a
> problem with their, in some cases, not allowing me the freedom _not_ to use
> it. And I personally shall mourn the passing of KDE 3.
>
Like I said, I am not pressuring you to use KDE 4. I just want to know
what doesn't work for you. And now I know, or I think that I do: you
don't like composting. Would you like me to send to you a KDE config
with composting disabled, that you can enable via CLI before logging
in the first time?
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Dotan Cohen
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