Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even after I've fiddled at some > length with fonts and qt tweaks, including installing the noto fonts which > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. > > My question to the panel is: is this just a temporary stage of development, > or are we going to have to live with it down the years?
What you have there is, overall, like 85% (unnecessary) GUI and 15% the content you're trying to see. You don't need to live with that. You could use fvwm or i3 and gnus or mutt or seamonkey, for example.