Look and feel in Redhat 9

[Marmagya]

Hello,
Redhat 9 has changed the looks if KDE (and also of GNOME), adding
a touch of RH. I am on RH9 and would like to go back to the original
look an feel of KDE. I downloaded the KDE version 3.1.3. I installed
Kdebase and Kdelibs. Then I restarted KDE with kdestart. Still I get the
same RH9 KDE, with the same icons etc.
How can I go back (or forward) to the original KDE? Am I missing
something?

Regards
Marmagya

[Ed Murphy]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:23:01 +0530, Marmagya wrote:

> Redhat 9 has changed the looks if KDE (and also of GNOME), adding
> a touch of RH. I am on RH9 and would like to go back to the original
> look an feel of KDE. I downloaded the KDE version 3.1.3. I installed
> Kdebase and Kdelibs. Then I restarted KDE with kdestart. Still I get the
> same RH9 KDE, with the same icons etc.
> How can I go back (or forward) to the original KDE? Am I missing
> something?

What specific aspects of the look and feel are you most concerned
about? Have you experimented with themes in Control Center?

[Marmagya]

Hi,
Yes, I tried all that. Themes are fine, I would like to have the
same KDE style of start menu etc. The current look and feel is not bad.
But I am trying to find why did I not get the typical KDE feel despite
installing the newer KDE.
There is another distribution available called the PCQLinux,
which is based on Redhat linux. PCQ is a group that publishes a journal.
They used to periodically comeout with a CD with Redhat linux
distribution on it. For some agreement related issues with RH, they came
up with their own distribution called the PCQLinux8 which draws heavily
from RH8. They gave it their own look and feel, and KDE on their
distribution looks even more different. Also I am not happy with the
Konsole that comes with this, it leaves garbage on the screen if you use
the whole screen, like while seeing a man page or editing a file with
vim. I would like to change the look and feel of this installation. I do
not want to uninstall it because the softwares I use work well on it,
though I found certain problems in getting them work properly on RH9.
I am not blaming RH9 for this, may be this is not their problem,
but rather than spending time on this, I would stay with the
installation that works. Hence I asked the question about how I can get
the newer KDE working if I install it on top of a working (older) KDE. I
would like get rid of the garbage that Konsole leaves on the screen.

Regards
Marmagya

Ed Murphy wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:23:01 +0530, Marmagya wrote:
>
>

>> Redhat 9 has changed the looks if KDE (and also of GNOME), adding
>>a touch of RH. I am on RH9 and would like to go back to the original
>>look an feel of KDE. I downloaded the KDE version 3.1.3. I installed
>>Kdebase and Kdelibs. Then I restarted KDE with kdestart. Still I get the
>>same RH9 KDE, with the same icons etc.
>> How can I go back (or forward) to the original KDE? Am I missing
>>something?

>
>
> What specific aspects of the look and feel are you most concerned
> about? Have you experimented with themes in Control Center?
>

[Richard R]

Marmagya wrote:

> Hi,
> Yes, I tried all that. Themes are fine, I would like to have the
> same KDE style of start menu etc. The current look and feel is not bad.
> But I am trying to find why did I not get the typical KDE feel despite
> installing the newer KDE.
> There is another distribution available called the PCQLinux,
> which is based on Redhat linux. PCQ is a group that publishes a journal.
> They used to periodically comeout with a CD with Redhat linux
> distribution on it. For some agreement related issues with RH, they came
> up with their own distribution called the PCQLinux8 which draws heavily
> from RH8. They gave it their own look and feel, and KDE on their
> distribution looks even more different. Also I am not happy with the
> Konsole that comes with this, it leaves garbage on the screen if you use
> the whole screen, like while seeing a man page or editing a file with
> vim. I would like to change the look and feel of this installation. I do
> not want to uninstall it because the softwares I use work well on it,
> though I found certain problems in getting them work properly on RH9.
> I am not blaming RH9 for this, may be this is not their problem,
> but rather than spending time on this, I would stay with the
> installation that works. Hence I asked the question about how I can get
> the newer KDE working if I install it on top of a working (older) KDE. I
> would like get rid of the garbage that Konsole leaves on the screen.
>
> Regards
> Marmagya
>

What if you try >preferences >desktop settings wizard and select the
standard KDE theme. You might have to manually select the icons though.

Rich.

[Freeride]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:23:01 +0530, Marmagya wrote:

> Hello,
> Redhat 9 has changed the looks if KDE (and also of GNOME), adding
> a touch of RH. I am on RH9 and would like to go back to the original
> look an feel of KDE. I downloaded the KDE version 3.1.3. I installed
> Kdebase and Kdelibs. Then I restarted KDE with kdestart. Still I get the
> same RH9 KDE, with the same icons etc.
> How can I go back (or forward) to the original KDE? Am I missing
> something?
>
> Regards
> Marmagya

Everything to change the appearance is right there in the Control Center.

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Freeride wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:23:01 +0530, Marmagya wrote:
>
>

>>Hello,
>> Redhat 9 has changed the looks if KDE (and also of GNOME), adding
>>a touch of RH. I am on RH9 and would like to go back to the original
>>look an feel of KDE. I downloaded the KDE version 3.1.3. I installed
>>Kdebase and Kdelibs. Then I restarted KDE with kdestart. Still I get the
>>same RH9 KDE, with the same icons etc.
>> How can I go back (or forward) to the original KDE? Am I missing
>>something?
>>
>>Regards
>>Marmagya

>
>
>
> Everything to change the appearance is right there in the Control Center.

Q: How do you get back the scrollable virtual space in the window
managers as opposed to the distinct workspaces.

A: You can't, the new window managers don't support that. You basically
have to replace them with something like "vtwm" and add them to your
local configuration by hand.