Opposition to removing old KWin themes?

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 22 July 2010, Thomas Lübking wrote:
> Am Thursday 22 July 2010 schrieb Martin Sandsmark:
> > On Thursday 22 July 2010 17:27:42 Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
> > > > I'd like to remove some old KWin themes from the default SC 4.6
> > > > install, eg. B II, Redmond, etc.
> > > 
> > > On the similar note, I'd also remove some of the old Widget themes
> > > (CDE, Motif, Window 9x)
> > 
> > Where are you going to move them? I suspect that some people are still
> > using them … :-)
> 
> Sorry, i didn't attach kde-core (again...).
> There's a mini-thread on kwin at kde.org.
> 
> Basically those (styles) _cannot_ be removed technically as they're
> statically linked in QtGui.
> 
> Hugos & Nunos idea apparently _was_ (i was rather joking :) to simply
> blacklist them in kcmshell4 style - ie. "More quality by hiding shit" (tm)
> :-P

seriously, there is _no_ other way to do that. and, is better than nothing.
(well, with a custom qt build by all distributions, but not very realistic


Cheers,
Marco Martin