Want KDE 3.5 look and feel

[Mark Halegua]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 10:41:11 am clay weber wrote:
> 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.
>
Clay,

Thanks.  Your response was what I was looking for and the most helpful in 
answering my questions.  I've now managed to change to the classic view menu 
and will make other changes as I go along.

This feels more comfortable.

Mark