[tde-users] Re: GTK 3 TQt Engine Styles

Even worse, in my estimation, is some of the crap the Gnomes have instituted, by far the worst being the now-you-see-it, now-you-dont scrollbar-tab thingy. I'm highly in favor of people being able to make their desktops and application behavior into whatever they want it to be, but forcing this as an unchangable default is beyond awful. I've spent many hours trying to make it go away, but best I can tell there's no escaping it. It's one of the reasons I tried the pretty awful digiKam over the once great gThumb. That's perhaps the biggest problem with enthusiast open source: sometimes an application is done, full stop. It does what it was designed to do, and does it well. All that remains is maintenance and adding such features (support for new file formats and the like) as become appropriate. But that's not why a lot of developers got into it, which was "look at how cool this thing I made is." Which makes it all the sadder that there are so many great GTK applications, while the GTK desktop is no improvement on anything, ever. In terms of UI, it's not as good as Windows 3.0. While the KDE developers went off en masse to the fever swamps, even though they had it right with KDE3, instead of polishing KDE3 and developing a range of excellent applications. It's insane, but it comes with the enthusuast developer territory. -- dep