Want KDE 3.5 look and feel

[Donn]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 10:44:23 Mark Halegua wrote:
> I liked the way 3.5 worked.. I shouldn't be forced to .. work
> in a different way
As much as I rail against reality, gravity still sucks. You feel legitimately 
irked, but that won't roll-back time. 
You have three choices: 1) Go back to 3.5 and stay for as long as it takes to 
go totally stale. 2) Stick with 4.x and shrug. 3) Go use some other 
WM/desktop.
With Windows you kind of get choices 1 and 2 (stay or upgrade) and choice 3 is 
all kinds of spotty.

> just because someone else thinks it better.
Those 'someone else's are just people coding for their passion (and some get 
paid, but not all) -- code moves-on. Stuff changes. If it did not we would not 
*have* Kubuntu at all.

> I was under the impression that Linux, open source, etc. gave people
> choices, not forced people into doing things "their way."
You have the wrong idea. You really have to do it the way your distro does it. 
That or start your own distro.
Within that awful gulag of oppression you can choose a vast array of desktops 
and managers and styles and apps; but that's only icing on a cold, cruel 
regime that is really out to mindwash you and install malware into your brain.

> If people like the way KDE 4.3 works, that's fine.  But, don't remove the
> choice of working the way 3.5 did.
Sounds like a reasonable position, but objects and functions and millions of 
variables and, oh I don't know... algorithms and flowcharts and... decisions 
and ... ideas and ..fun! all kind of move things away from the old.

> unless there's a good reason for change, change for change's sake is
> usually not good.
I get your shock and disappointment, I do, I feel sad about my 64bit Kubuntu 
and will be wiping and going 32bit when Karmic hits; but you should just let 
this go now. 

I predict a thread from hades will now form which will eventually get pruned 
by our wily admins. If you want to continue your thoughts, search the archives 
-- there have been recent threads on this subject. Or take it to Sounder.

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