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Working around Oxygen in 4.2
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From: Benjamin Meyer <b...@meyerhome.net>
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Subject: Re: [KDE] Working around Oxygen in 4.2
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:19:17 -0400
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Sure, but why would we? Most people complain about the tab widget,
then then line edit, then QtWebKit. KDE's 4.2's Oxygen makes our app
look ugly.
-Benjamin Meyer
On Mar 27, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Alexandre Bique wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Benjamin Meyer <b...@meyerhome.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> So using Arora with Oxygen in KDE 4.2 creates a really bad
>> experience. I
>> would not be surprised if kde4 users was one of our largest user
>> base.
>> Although many things were fixed for 4.3 most users will use KDE
>> 4.2 for
>> many more months. I am thinking of adding a check that unless you
>> have an
>> environment variable set it will automatically load plastique over
>> oxygen.
>> Once KDE4.3 is released (or near to release) we would remove this
>> check.
>> What do you think?
>
> Can you only use plastique for the webkit's view ?
>
> --
> Alexandre Bique