Want KDE 3.5 look and feel

[Mark Halegua]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 05:06:37 am Donn wrote:
> On Sunday 30 August 2009 10:44:23 Mark Halegua wrote:
> > I liked the way 3.5 worked.. I shouldn't be forced to .. work
> > in a different way
>
> As much as I rail against reality, gravity still sucks. You feel
> legitimately irked, but that won't roll-back time.
> You have three choices: 1) Go back to 3.5 and stay for as long as it takes
> to go totally stale. 2) Stick with 4.x and shrug. 3) Go use some other
> WM/desktop.
> With Windows you kind of get choices 1 and 2 (stay or upgrade) and choice 3
> is all kinds of spotty.
>
> > just because someone else thinks it better.
>
> Those 'someone else's are just people coding for their passion (and some
> get paid, but not all) -- code moves-on. Stuff changes. If it did not we
> would not *have* Kubuntu at all.
>
> > I was under the impression that Linux, open source, etc. gave people
> > choices, not forced people into doing things "their way."
>
> You have the wrong idea. You really have to do it the way your distro does
> it. That or start your own distro.
> Within that awful gulag of oppression you can choose a vast array of
> desktops and managers and styles and apps; but that's only icing on a cold,
> cruel regime that is really out to mindwash you and install malware into
> your brain.
>
> > If people like the way KDE 4.3 works, that's fine.  But, don't remove the
> > choice of working the way 3.5 did.
>
> Sounds like a reasonable position, but objects and functions and millions
> of variables and, oh I don't know... algorithms and flowcharts and...
> decisions and ... ideas and ..fun! all kind of move things away from the
> old.
>
> > unless there's a good reason for change, change for change's sake is
> > usually not good.
>
> I get your shock and disappointment, I do, I feel sad about my 64bit
> Kubuntu and will be wiping and going 32bit when Karmic hits; but you should
> just let this go now.
>
> I predict a thread from hades will now form which will eventually get
> pruned by our wily admins. If you want to continue your thoughts, search
> the archives -- there have been recent threads on this subject. Or take it
> to Sounder.
>
> \d

I'm not adverse to change when it means something will improve.  Neither am I 
going to rail and gnash.  I was simply asking a simple question.  If the 
answer is no, then I have some decisions to make, plain and simple.

I do understand the people coding are doing it for the joy of it and are 
making decisions I may not necessarily agree with.  I've been using KDE 
because I felt it was the best of the best.  If I can't agree with that still 
being the case, well, as I said above, I have some decisions to make.

I was simply asking a question, looking for answers and perhaps some pointers.

And making my preferences known.

Mark