<p dir="ltr">On Sep 15, 2015 11:01 AM, "Emilio Recio" <<a href="mailto:Emilio.Recio@jefferson.edu">Emilio.Recio@jefferson.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> But the point that I am trying to make is that KF5 should have provided<br>
> for a transitional phase for developers. Both side-by-side.<br>
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> Further, what is the argument for the new standard. The only thing I<br>
> read was "you can make your icons prettier and in the right size". This<br>
> is not an excuse for removing basic functionality,<br>
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<p dir="ltr">There is also the fact that the xembed specification had thumbnails hardcoded to a specific size (22px by 22px) which was making them look like crap on even my 1080p monitor, let alone 4k ones. </p>
<p dir="ltr">There's also the fact that there was no consistency amongst xembed apps, xembed apps could even change something like the cursor when you moused over them. </p>
<p dir="ltr">There's also the Wayland question-- theoretically you could do it via XWayland but the KDE developers explored that option and found it to be a "non trivial" amount of work and it didn't even always work consistently.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are other reasons as well, but there's the highlights.<br>
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