On Tuesday 12 October 2010 23:39:06 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:20:39 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 22:47:45 Camaleón wrote: > >> In fact, KDE 4.5 can be (almost 100%) configured to play the same KDE > >> 3.5 did. It takes some time to get the same look&feel, but you can > >> leave a quite similar desktop. > > > > "quite similar", "almost 100%", "configured to _play_ the same". Ouch. > > Spend long enough and you will get something that is almost, but not > > quite, totally unlike tea. But it still won't _play_ right. I want to > > *use* my DE not look at it. I want its looks to be in no way a > > distraction. Maybe restful on the eyes. That's all I want the looks to > > do. > > > > But the functionality - now that I mind about, some bits more than > > others. > > (after some rant... :-P) > > Yes, yes... I know all that (I've been there). > > But if you still love KDE, just give KDE 4.5 a chance. Spend 15 minutes > in setting up the way you liked (meaning: remove all the fancy effects, > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop...) and you're > done. You'll get a plain and simple desktop, the same KDE 3.5 used to > be :-) > > > I have continued to use Lenny largely because I do not want to lose KDE > > 3.x.x any sooner than I have to. And because I always hoped that > > someone more knowledgable and adept than I would miss/want KDE 3.5.x as > > much as I did, and carry it forward. And someone did and has. \o/ > > Yep, but supporting KDE 3.5 cannot last forever. You have to face that > and you'll have to decide what way to choose, just be prepared ;-( > > > I have already tried Trinity Kubuntu, with some success, but it was not > > really stable at the time. So I am going to install Trinity KDE on a > > machine other than my workhorse desktop, but that I am using quite a lot > > at the moment. I am really looking forward to it. Squeeze, here I > > come! > > Good luck! :-) > > But just in case, give it a chance to KDE 4.5 (play with it in a virtual > machine and start it from time to time) and also, test another desktops. > Experience tells me that sticking to just one thing it can be very > dangerous... and very frustrating.
Why? KDE 4 has nothing in common with KDE 3 other than the name. I have given KDE 4 a chance. I don't like it. I don't understand why there is this moral crusade to treat KDE 3 lovers as some kind of pig-headed throwback. _Of course_ KDE 3.5.10 is not going to last forever - in fact Trinity KDE has already reached 3.5.12. But it could evolve organically. And I have been trying other DEs. I have just lived for 10 days with xfce. I did not find it enjoyable. Of course one day KDE 3 will die. So will I. So will GNOME. So will the planet. I have never said that I will not change - merely that I do not want to do so until I have to. But why is using it "dangerous"? There is a good chance that it will outlive me. ;-) And if it doesn't, I'll use something else. :-) But that something else is unlikely to be KDE 4. Sorry, Camaleón. I realise that what you are saying is fairly mild. But I have been subject to an onslaught over this by Dotan, who is a KDE 4 zealot, so I am a bit touchy about attempts to cajole, persuade, bully or compel, me into KDE 4. KDE 4 seems to be all about look and glitz and nothing about function. Function is important to me. Lisi -- 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/201010131059.47615.lisi.re...@gmail.com
