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Re:Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment by indymike on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:36PM (#25876044)
The current KDE does a great job allowing for customization.
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Re:Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment by bmn__ on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:00PM (#25878439)
No, it is currently barely sufficient, certainly not great.

The scrollbar in System Settings is impossible to customise (through the GUI). Tray icons and log-off dialogue icons and the task bar appearance cannot quickly or easily customised because due to "theme"ing changing one thing also changes the other.

The maintainers screwed up and it was all downhill after version 3. Each major version introduced an incompatibility that meant that some users were forced to abandon, e.g. KDE Classic icons or window decorations BⅡ https://cdn.pling.com/img//hive/content-pre2/5965-2.png or Crystal https://cdn.pling.com/img//hive/content-pre1/13969-1.jpg

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Re:Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment by indymike on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:42AM (#25882134)
These are small losses compared to the complete lack of customization in say ios or modern Windows. Still KDE2 was very good.
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