Restoring legacy components

[Goh Lip]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:44:00 +0800, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ha! Yes, definitely old now. I have spent some time trying to get a
> couple of versions of Bluecurve to install & be usable on Ubuntu, but
> I have always failed.

What I did was to save some of the desktop themes I liked and I reuse them  
when a new version comes up. Yes, like you, I disliked the oxygen theme  
and I had been rehashing my desktop with each successive versions. However  
there are tons of kde downloads, including wallpapers that you can select  
from. Again I don't do that much. But I remember a nice free wallpaper  
site http://www.vladstudio.com/home/  which you may like.

> My greater question, though, you did not touch upon. How come Kubuntu,
> as one of the main, dominant, officially-sanctioned remixes of Ubuntu,
> does not have (a version of) the same themes as Ubuntu proper? Same
> goes for Xubuntu, too.

I guess only the developers can answer this question, but I can surmise  
that they wanted to have a distinct identity. The plymouth splash are also  
different. Again, this doesn't bother me much. It is good enough to know  
that I can use whatever repository I choose, even outside ubuntu's and  
have the dependencies taken care of. Can't say that for many non-debian  
linuxes.

Regards - Goh Lip

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