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> I still really prefer GTK2 apps. The GTK3 file picker is awful

I rather prefer Qt4 apps. Some Qt4 apps look uglier after migrating to Qt5.

That might be because you lost your qt4 theming config when you upgraded your DE to qt5, so qt4 has fallen back to defaults.

On ArchLinux you can run `qtconfig-qt4` to configure the look and feel of qt4 applications.

No, it's mostly because Qt5 apps also start to use QML widgets, which are quite a bit inferior in just about everything. Higher latency, a "touch like" feel (fatter borders in general, overall lower display density), respond in a different way (scrolling), and so on.

I always was a great fan of both GTK2 (for the UI) and Qt4 (for the API). GTK3 made me switch to Qt4 for development. Qt5 brings some improvement, but as a user I absolutely hate QML.

I suspect your comment is tangical to the what myself and the GP were discussing as I don't really understand why qt5 using QML would affect the look and feel of existing legacy qt4 applications.

Running qtconfig-qt4 and redefining the config I wanted did fix the "ugliness" of qt4 applications after I upgraded to KDE5 (or whenever it was KDE switched qt versions)

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