Subj : Re: SerenityOS
To   : Oli
From : acn
Date : Thu Aug 26 2021 16:13:00

Am 22.08.21 schrieb Oli@21:3/102 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo Oli,

O> I don't understand what people like about the KDE 3.x series? I
O> despised it back in the days. I even tried Trinity recently - it still
O> sucks. KDE 1 and 2 were great. KDE 3 was the time when GUIs became
O> bright, colorful, animated and annoying. KDE 5 is still usable on older
O> machines.

Although I'm using KDE 5 today with the KDE Neon distribution, I really  
liked KDE 3.

The main reason for me is, that in KDE 3 I really had the feeling that  
almost all parts of the desktop worked together and could extend each  
other. Konqueror, by that time the file manager (and much more), could be  
configured just like you wanted it to look and feel.
There were so much KIO plugins that just worked and were accessible  
through Konqueror.
And there was KPrinter, a great frontend to all things printing that got  
lost in time.

But most of all, it was a version that was developed for users that know  
what they are doing and that wasn't 'dumbed-down' like many other systems.
You could change keyboard shortcuts everywhere, change toolbars, menus.
You also had many themes THAT WORKED (not only one which really works like  
today).

And I liked that icons etc. really had colors, it is annoyingly  
compilcated to reconfigure this in modern KDE.
Humans can distinguish colors and it s*cks that today most toolbar icons  
are only b/w with the thinnest lines possible.

I don't understand what you mean with "bright", as KDE 3 used gray as the  
main background - in contrast to a brighter white in todays Breeze theme.

Regards,
Anna

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