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This was my first Linux desktop (on Red Hat 6.2, no less). I really miss these looks. I may not care for the oversized status bar, but I loved the window decora
by sombragris 3y ago
This was my first Linux desktop (on Red Hat 6.2, no less). I really miss these looks. I may not care for the oversized status bar, but I loved the window decoration, the color scheme and the widget style.
Now there's a way to recreate more or less the look, with the Reactionary theme/style. But the window decoration is not native, the color scheme gets quirky in some places, and inconsistencies appear everywhere. I had to settle for Breeze, but I'll always miss the good KDE1 looks.
- don-code 3y agoKDE2 on Mandrake 8 for me. The look and feel of that desktop was a big part of what made me want to start using it over Windows. Whereas XP had just launched the Bozo the Clown-inspired theme, KDE offered something that somehow looked more real, and lived-in. The other part, of course, was that the tools it shipped with were far and away better than the ones on Windows. Konqueror (way faster than Netscape) and Gaim (way more functional than AIM - I know that wasn't part of KDE) are two that came to mind almost immediately. Nowadays I live my life in a Web browser, and I'm not sure I'd have had the same impressions there.
- b112 3y agoFor those missing kde2, try Trinity aka TDE, a kde2 fork.
- _mlbt 3y agoTrinity is actually a fork of KDE3, not 2.
- b112 3y agoOK then, I see you are correct.
- sombragris 3y agoCorrect, and I'm not sure whether I could recreate the KDE1 windeco and colorscheme with it.
- cmiles74 3y agoI switched from TWM to KDE, I was running MkLinux on a Apple PowerMac. It took a while to build but when I started it up, it seemed amazing at the time.