Greetings,
Honestly, I really do not care how many replies I get. They can be zero or
minus 10 as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not a socialist media fan or promoter.
I'm just commenting on a state of facts.
Comparing KDE 3.5 to KDE "latest and greatest" is like comparing Windows XP
with Windblows 13, 17, or whatever the mama version Bulls**t Gates puts up these days, I
don't even have any idea because I ditched Windblows completely 20 years ago.
Comparing KDE 3.5 to KDE "latest and greatest" is like comparing Einstein with
Stalin.
This only serves as proof (for a millionth time) that the theory I formulated 20 years ago is
always true: "OLDER=BETTER && NEWER=CRAPPIER". And this is a universal
principle, it applies to every (living or inanimate) thing.
Because 20 years ago I chose absolute freedom, I had of course to fight for it,
it's just that in the last decade the fight grew 30 times bigger.
I'm using Linux at a level most would not even comprehend.
I actually use it as the one and only OS to solve all my daily needs.
As far as KDE is concerned, the only 2 things from it that I use are Konqueror
as a file manager and Kwin as a window manager.
But of course, even these two I had to patch for dumbfixes to eliminate various
cretinisms.
I had to patch Konqueror to make it display the date+timestamps in standard ISO format (YYYY-MM-HH
hh:mm:ss), which is the only format that makes sense for brain owners (instead of stupid things
like "yesterday", "the day after tomorrow" and other such idiocies).
I had to patch Konqueror also to make it display file sizes as exact values in bytes,
instead of the "Kikimimibibigigi" retarded baloney where you need to waste a
minute just to figure out what the mama that means.
Also I had to figure out what trick up the sleeve should I use to restore the facility of
using the F4 key to get a "Konsole Here" action, which of course got screwed up
too, at some point in time (NEWER=...).
I had to patch KWin to make it possible to have non-zero-width borders, so I
don't have to waste an hour trying to grab a zero-size border every time I want
to resize a window.
I also had to patch it to make it possible to retain a resizable border on
maximized windows so I can move-resize windows very fast.
As I said, the only two things out of KDE that are actually usable (after heavy
dumbfix patching) are KWin and Konqueror.
Other than that, of course I also have TDE installed plus a whole bunch of
other window managers, desktop managers, desktop environments. For instance I
have four different FTP servers compiled from scratch with custom install paths
so they can coexist.
I have an older generation Linux with 32 different kernel versions installed.
I have 100+ different versions of Firefox that I can use any time I want, any
number at the same time, each with its own separate profile and a single-click
launch list.
Regarding Konqueror, the reason I use it is that, since 15 years ago, I wrote a
lot of scripts and context menus to achieve a whole lot of tasks by
right-clicks on certain file types, directories etc. I get things done very
fast and very efficiently with Konqueror as a file manager. For instance, I
mount or create ISO files with a single click and I join PDFs with a
right-click plus left-click.
Aside from that, the Konqueror file manager has a unique feature they
introduced a while ago, the file view can display a tree of directories AND
files at the same time, something the old Konqueror did not have.
Combined with a file size in bytes and date+timestamps in standard ISO, this is
of huge help to me.
But, to have all this, I gotta fight entire battles and wars.
On 11/16/2025 04:27 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Greetings.
This might be my only reply to this thread.
Cristian S - 15.11.25, 15:49:28 CET:
As of Konqueror 21.04.0, there is no method available anymore to change
the toolbar and menubar fonts, and the detailed view column headers
font.
This version is more than 4 years old and highly outdated.
In the "Configure - Konqueror" window, the content of [File Management]
-> [View Modes], [Navigation], [Services], [General] tabs have NO
"Apply" button anymore (programmers too hungry and ate it?).
I do not even really have [File Management] => [View Modes] here, but just
[View Modes] on the top level. And in there is no [Services] / [General]
tab or at least I do not find it right now. I bet it will be somewhere. I
bet there has been some kind of restructuring going on between Konqueror
21.04 and 25.04. Konqueror may not be that actively developed anymore, but
it is a 4 year difference!
However I do seem to find an "Apply" button on every configuration page I
tried so far.
Back in the day, KDE 3.5 was something really great.
Today it's all dull & dumb.
If you wonder why you just got one reply so far, look at what you wrote.
If I were a KDE developer I would not reply to such a rude way of
expressing your frustration. Why are you even using current KDE software
anymore if you are so unhappy with it? No one is forcing you to use it.
You are actually attacking those who develop the software you are using
mostly in their free time. Not a good plan, if you ask me.
Mind you, Konqueror has been kind of deprecated for file management a long
time ago. Maybe it would have been better to remove the file management
part from it altogether, but eventually I believe it is basically using
the same components than Dolphin uses for at least most of it. I love the
Konqueror ability to tile the window as often as you want, but I got used
to the optional two pane display of Dolphin meanwhile. Current Dolphin is
an excellent file manager.
Anyway I do not concur with your general assessment of the state of KDE.
Plasma 6.5 is a really, really nice desktop. Some KDE software still has
issues, like Akonadi, but in general things are really working quite
smoothly. I am actually quite happy with the state of KDE software on my
system.
And if you like to have something similar like KDE 3.5 back there is an
option for that as well. Just not within the KDE project and within the
scope of this mailing list.
Best,
