Re : Skin

[Duncan]

Francois Maurice posted on Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:09:02 -0800 as excerpted:

> I'm using KDE 4.7.0 under Windows XP SP3.

That changes the picture /entirely/.  KDE is normally its own desktop, 
providing along with X all of the graphical services MS Windows normally 
provides on its own.  Since on MS platforms they're already provided by 
the platform, only some bits of kde necessary to support kde apps on MS 
are normally installed there, and it's an /entirely/ different ball game, 
one of which I know very little.

I wish you had said that the first time around, as I really don't know 
enough about KDE on MS to comment intelligently.  But the normal 
assumption is KDE on Linux, or possibly on one of the BSDs, and that's 
what I was assuming.  I'm guessing very little of my post makes sense on 
MS at all, except that kde settings, kcontrol, whatever, probabably does 
still contain the general kde appearance options.  But which of those 
apply on MS and which don't, I'd have little idea at all.

FWIW, I jumped off MS to Linux when it became apparent they were heading 
somewhere I didn't want to go, with the XP (eXPrivacy) call-home 
authorization stuff.  I'm not going to let some company demand that I let 
them remotely authorize what I run on what is after all my computer, not 
theirs.  Others are free to make their own decisions in that regard, but 
I stay away from MS now, and while at one point I was deep into MS enough 
to be running MSIE/OE betas, my knowledge of anything MS now is over a 
decade old, pre-eXPrivacy, as I said.

I do hope there is someone else that can help you, tho.  But as I said, 
the assumption is kde on X (on some *ix at least, if not on Linux), not 
on MS, so your chances of getting someone with kde on MS knowledge are 
rather lower.  FWIW, there's a kde on Linux list (this is the general kde 
list), and it's possible there's a kde on MS list as well.  If so, that'd 
be the place to ask, as your chances of getting a knowledgeable reply 
would be much higher.

Alternatively, the developers doing the kde on MS stuff are likely to be 
of help, at least directing you to an appropriate kde on MS forum or 
list.  See if there's a contact point mentioned, or ask the folks who 
you're getting the kde on ms from.  It's not that I don't want to help, 
it's that I simply don't have enough knowledge of kde on MS in ordered to 
do so, and am not really interested in MS enough at this point to spend 
the time to get it, as that's a now decade-closed chapter in my life that 
I have no intention of reopening.

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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