Linked by Osho GG on Mon 19th Jul 2004 18:24 UTC
This is not a typical review of a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME. These are my observations when I updated from KDE 3.2.3 to KDE 3.3 Beta1.
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they decided not to change the default style until KDE 4.0. They didn't want huge interface changes every small release
I understand them not wanting the look not to change constantly, though I still hope they think about it again and take the plunge with Plastik for 3.3 Final. Many distributions seem to make it the default already - if they aren't even using completely other (and sometimes not bug free) styles... somehow I have the feeling nobody realy wants to see Keramik... Even the guys I show Knoppix to at times are like "ugh that looks strange"...
So it wouldn't be that much of a change for many people anyway.
Qt 4.0 will provide more and exciting theming capabilities (can you say opengl?), so perhaps something even better than Plastik will appear.If it won't be Plastik I hope it's something similarly clean, simple (or 'flat' like in 'unlike Keramik'). Though a 3D accelerated KWin (dropshadows, smoot exposé like window management) and a "3D" enhanced plastik would really make KDE 4.0 a very nice thing.
I just hope the guys at Trolltech could fix something that annoys me a lot,...
There are things I hope get fixed as well - like the inability to move a horizontal scrollbar when there is no vertical scrolbar in a window... think of MultiColumn View inside Konqueror or the Open/Save dialog (in a directory with a lot of files).