On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the desktop/plasma > profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. > > I don't. > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even after I've fiddled at some > length with fonts and qt tweaks, including installing the noto fonts which > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. > > My question to the panel is: is this just a temporary stage of development, > or are we going to have to live with it down the years? >
A lot of what you see there is not Qt itself, but the theme. The modern trend in gui elements is to make them less busy, use more whitespace and try to display on thing on the screen at a time (less for the user to focus on). You can see this for yourself: look at typical web sites over the last 15 years, then compare how gui elements are done in kde3, 4 and now 5. You will see a pattern. It's also in OSes and toolkits: gnome, macs, windows since 8. And on your tablets and phone. The Qt5 theme you are looking at reflects this general trend. I have not found a Qt5 theme that looks Qt4-esque, but it's totally possible to do it. I think in your case, you should go back to Qt4 until a quality theme is available for Qt5 that you like. Do keep in mind that Qt4 is already a good distance down the end-of-life process so you will have to switch to Qt5 some time (but not today or tomorrow) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
