Question on xfce

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2023-07-07 at 22:37 +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
wrote:
> Is Xubuntu very good?

Just my opinion!
For testing purpose yes, since the live media runs OOTB on almost all
machines.
However, nowadays Ubuntu, so all of it's flavours, such as Xubuntu too,
IMHO have a broken package management. It's a hybride of apt and snap
and at anytime without informing the user, a transitional apt package
might install a snap. Software installed as a snap is asking for
trouble.

Since you are looking for a theme, don't care about Ventoy or anything
else I mentioned before.

I don't know if a theme exist that looks like Windows 10 or 11. If so, I
wonder if it

1. supports GTK 2,3 and 4
2. supports Qt whatsoever version
3. assuming it should work for GTK 2, 3, 4 and at least one version of
   Qt, is it maintained and will it be maintained in the future?
4. does a theme that looks like Windows 10 or 11 come with any unwanted
   side effects?

For example, is it possible to run meld and to distinguish a dot from a
space? See https://i.imgur.com/BQxqK3l.png . It's possible to solve this
and similar issues, but it's no fun. In the case of meld, the user needs
to edit one line of meld's code, for other apps it's needed to edit the
theme. Editing a theme is a PITA. It's not easy to find the culprit and
once you know what you need to edit, you easily run into a short-blanket
syndrome. IOW fixing one issue, does cause another issue. If you manged
to edit everything to your taste, you don't know for how long the edited
theme can be used. It might break with the next GTK update.