Class Parody

This site needs updates. And I should stop postponing the massive update I was planning to do at some point in time. So I came up with a much better solution. Just post stuff. About whatever. Content updates? Maybe.

I’ve got working difficulties. Some people may call them learning difficulties, but that isn’t exactly accurate. My problem in elementary school was not that I didn’t understand what multiplication was, but it was that I did an average of 3 multiplication exercises before I got distracted by the unusual discovery that our erasers somehow works on the stuff in our text books, while we were led to believe that they only work on pencil lines.

Today I was planning on working on stuff for college. Computer Science-ey stuff and all that. But I got distracted by the annoying fact that when I try to use a KDE application under GNOME, it always looks like the Kapplication has had a serious allergic reaction, with its swollen user interface and ugly colors in between my dark and minimalistic everything else.

I figured there must be a way to fix that issue. So I looked around. I wasn’t alone. Both GNOME and KDE users were annoyed that their finely tweaked desktop themes didn’t work on programs from the other side.

Then I came across this forum thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1206598

I applied morganpatrick’s solution from post #7 (KDE4): install and run “systemsettings”.
You can tweak the looks of KDE apps from there, and there’s a lot of options (I guess that is one of KDE’s stronger sides). Now every time I use a KDE program, it looks much better.

The drawback is that I didn’t exactly get a lot of actual work done today. But for the past couple of weeks, I have been remarkably productive. This problem may not improve my actual workflow in the future, but it’s definitely satisfying.