On 11/04/2016 20:15, Mick wrote: > On Monday 11 Apr 2016 13:17:05 J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Monday, April 11, 2016 11:34:03 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Saturday 09 April 2016 11:12:51 Mick wrote: >>>> I noticed today that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon >>>> have >>>> to deal with it. >>> >>> I saw that too, and it cast a gloom over the rest of my day. I intend to >>> stick with KDE-4 until some more sensible themes become available in >>> Plasma >>> 5, so I hope someone will be keeping an archive of KDE-4 somewhere, as in >>> the earlier case of KDE 3 -> 4. >>> >>> Last time I searched for Plasma 5 themes (or design methods, in case I >>> might be able to create my own) I came up empty handed. My objection to >>> the available one is that it's just ugly: acres of wasted space >>> everywhere, and great blocks of solid colour, some of which are actually >>> buttons without looking like them. Nothing subtle or sophisticated about >>> it at all. >>> >>> If anyone can point me to a better theme I'll be grateful. >> >> You could try the following: >> http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/ocd-plasma5-theme?content=175772 >> >> I am not fully convinced, but then again, I quite like "Breeze Dark" with >> "Air" so far. But still looking for a really nice one. (My design skills are >> non-existent) >> >> -- >> Joost > > It's all a bit flat and boring, at least for a desktop. However, I wouldn't > be surprised if the target audience is MSWindows users with Surface tablets. > What other reason would KDE devs have to imitate the aesthetic shift from > Windows 7 to Windows 10? >
Or maybe it's just fashion, like garments and shoes. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
