On Thursday 31 December 2015 12:34:26 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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, > > [...] > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. > > I don't quite get that.
?? > > 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? > > I suppose it's all about the theme and its definition of margins. I > dabbled with KF5 last weekend on Arch linux and also find all KDE window > decorators except for good'ol Plastic to bee too wasteful with space. > OTOH I'm considering bying a laptop soon with 12.5 inch and am still > undecided on the resolution (125 or 176 DPI). > > Be thankful we don't have a compulsoliry touch-oriented UI. ;-P A small mercy, indeed. :) -- Rgds Peter
