> 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? -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2t880dece01005080734g6724972ewc88208fccc8b7...@mail.gmail.com
