On 2021-07-28 22:09:13 dep wrote:
said J Leslie Turriff:
| I probably wouldn't mind Gnome, except it has so few configuration
| knobs, and what it does have are all more or less hidden. I dislike
| that the Gnome themes all waste so much screen real estate with wide
| title, menu and tool bars and inability in most apps to put buttons on
| the sides of windows instead of along the top. (Like me, your display
| is probably wider than high; why insist on taking up vertical space with
| them?) If Gnome was more configurable I might be using it, but it
| isn't, so I'm not.
Much the same is true of modern KDE. I mentioned the absurdity of trying to
add an application to Kicker. I should have also noted that it was
conmplexity for complexity's sake -- the new, puzzling method accomplishes
nothing that the old, straightforward method failed to accomplish.
| I did hear something not too long ago about TrollTech
| making QT6 license-only; don't know it that's just a rumour.
Might you have caught that on, oh, I dunno, a list frequented by Gnome
simps?
dep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821050 seems to be comprehensive coverage of the
issue. This only affects QT6, of course, so is not immediately of concern to TDE.
Leslie
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tde-config: 1.0