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    KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    The biggest reason I use GNOME over KDE right now is because theming in KDE is such a huge pain in the rear. In GNOME making it pretty is as simple as going to GNOME Look, downloading themes, and dragging them into theme manager.

    For KDE, you go to KDE Look, hope and pray there's a dpkg available, hope and pray that dpkg works, else hope and pray it compiles. I get about 10% of the themes that interest me on KDE look working; it's very disappointing.

    Why is KDE so much harder to theme, and is there any improvement in sight?

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    Re: KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    Think you hit that right on as I found it just about the only peeve I have with KDE
    quick program launch left mac type bar

    Started by Omnios, December 30th, 2007 11:49 AM

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    Personally, it's one of the many sour spots I *try* to ignore every time I *try* to give KDE a shot.
    Sylvia: Look at what you've done to him!
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    Re: KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    Quote Originally Posted by bored2k
    Personally, it's one of the many sour spots I *try* to ignore every time I *try* to give KDE a shot.
    Rather strong language, there, Bored2K. Had a bad time with KDE ?

    I don't like KDE, and I find it's theming scheme to be one of the most irritating things about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iandefor
    Rather strong language, there, Bored2K. Had a bad time with KDE ?
    Yes I do have a bad time every time I *try* to like and use KDE. If you want a simple example of why I do _not_ like it, having a crippled KDE Control Manager (or whatever kcontrol stands for) about 91.7% of the times I try KDE does not really appeal to me at all (a kcontrol that turns into /dev/null everytime I try to use my Admin mojo).

    Crippled Kcontrol: 30 strings of pulled hair.
    Not-as-visually-appealing-as-the-competition style: 25 "what the ..." QT-eye rolls.
    Kbloat: It's easier to find the exact number of Pi than to clean it.

    For everything else, there's GTK-powered managers.
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    Re: KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    Quote Originally Posted by bored2k
    Yes I do have a bad time every time I *try* to like and use KDE. If you want a simple example of why I do _not_ like it, having a crippled KDE Control Manager (or whatever kcontrol stands for) about 91.7% of the times I try KDE does not really appeal to me at all (a kcontrol that turns into /dev/null everytime I try to use my Admin mojo).

    Crippled Kcontrol: 30 strings of pulled hair.
    Not-as-visually-appealing-as-the-competition style: 25 "what the ..." QT-eye rolls.
    Kbloat: It's easier to find the exact number of Pi than to clean it.

    For everything else, there's GTK-powered managers.
    [Insert Powerful Expletive Here] that's crazy. I've never had such trouble.
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    Re: KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    Personally I've found I don't even try new themes because of this, but the colour selector maks up for it bigtime. I don't see a gnome equivalent unfortunately

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    Re: KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    i agree with the statement. i have use kde with suse for a while and the customization is so much easier with gnome.
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    Re: KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    I haven't had any problems in customizing my themes in kde at all. I found it rather easy and intuitive through the system control panel, and also have done some things with dpkg's and compiling from source. The only things that I haven't been able to compile were broken from the start, and others were having similar problems with them.

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    Re: KDE's Weak Spot - Theming

    KDE 4 to get Dashboard widget support
    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060102-5881.html

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