Want KDE 3.5 look and feel

[clay weber]

Mark Halegua wrote:
> On Sunday 30 August 2009 04:10:23 am girardhenri at free.fr wrote:
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Mark Halegua" <phantom21 at mindspring.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:24 AM
>> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Want KDE 3.5 look and feel
>>
>>> I've upgraded to kubuntu 9.04 and I'm not happy with the look and feel of
>>> kde
>>> 4.3.  I liked 3.5 and how it worked.
>>>
>>> In many ways I liken the changes in look and feel of 4.3 to the changes
>>> microsoft made to their desktop from XP to vista.  And I thought that was
>>> a
>>> mistake as people had to relearn how to use their desktop.  As a
>>> consultant I
>>> heard a lot of complaints about that, and when I showed them KDE 3.5,
>>> they were much more likely to move from windows vista to Linux as a
>>> result.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to keep 4.3 but make it look like 3.5?  Is there a skin or
>>> some
>>> such for this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> --
>> Very strange as kde4.3 looks more vista like than kde3.5 ?
>> going backward is not really a good way, maybe better learn new stuff
> 
> Missing the point.  I liked the way 3.5 worked.  I'm used to the way it 
> worked, and I shouldn't be forced to (like Microsoft keeps doing) to work in 
> a different way just because someone else thinks it better.
> 
> I was under the impression that Linux, open source, etc. gave people choices, 
> not forced people into doing things "their way."
> 
> 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.

They haven't, for the most part. As already mentioned, you can change 
your desktop motif from the standard widget-based plasma desktop to the 
'classic' icon and folder-based desktop by selecting 'folder view' in 
your desktop settings (right-click menu on the desktop)

As also mentioned, you can switch to the classic menu as well, and in 
KDE4.3, there are more settings and options that make it pretty much 
like the old style menu.

Of course, the actual applications still work they way they have done 
before. Kontact still looks and works like it did before for example.


> Another point I should make is, change is neither good nor bad.  But, unless 
> there's a good reason for change, change for change's sake is usually not 
> good.
> 

In this case the only way the devs felt they could improve KDE was to 
start from scratch as the 3.x codebase was becoming too full of hacks 
and workarounds (to add all the features users wanted) that it was 
becoming to difficult to maintain and improve without things starting to 
become seriously broken.


clay

> Mark
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