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> >On Thursday 03 January 2013 19:42:46 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> The people who haven't used TDE will think that
> >>
> >> > it is always the same old project as KDE3. It just looks too old and of
> >> > course, the more actual Oxygen icon theme will go this way one day or
> >> > another, but as of now, I think that it would be a good idea for TDE to
> >> > use Oxygen or another icon theme, at least this updated version of
> >> > Crystal SVG.
> >
> >It seems to me to be a pity the way things are changed purely because they
> >are "old". For everyone who is scared off TDE because it looks too like
> >KDE3, I would venture that there will be at least 2 who will heave a sigh of
> >relief that _someone_ doesn't think that things should be changed purely to
> >look "modern". If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
> >
> >Lisi
>
> +1
> Jonesy
>

Hi everyone,

One thing I should say is that, of course, the icon theme has nothing to do with the quality of the desktop environment. It doesn't add or remove features to TDE. It might be my personal tastes, but when I boot in a live CD from 2005, I see that things are now made in a more modern way. Sometimes, it is more simple to do X thing and sometimes it is the same old thing, but it doesn't looks like it is from 10 or 15 years ago.

Now, in general UI themes, there is less borders and separators lines everywhere than back in the days of KDE 3.5.x. Compare a theme like QtCurve or like Oxygen to an older theme like Plastik. We don't have to use a theme that looks like what it was 12 years ago, back in the Win XP and 2000 era. It should be noted that we are in 2013.

Just my opinion...

-Alexandre