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Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

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Re: Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

#5

I can't be the only one that dislikes KDE's typography. I see that notification pane and aside from color, nothing gives it typographical hierarchy. It just looks odd to me.

No hierarchy, bad sizes, bad padding, no different colours, etc etc. It's just terrible design, as I've said in another comment which has been promptly flagged. Seems like the only proper criticism is to write the code myself to fix it? Because I'm passing, I don't use KDE, and I don't need to write code to see when a design is amateurish.

Re: Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

#6
Does it solve the infinite appending issue though?

Basically, every Slack message would append to the same notification, so after 4-5 notifications, I'd just see old ones and a ... line, making the notifications useless. This also went for the update centre, etc.

Also when notifications decide to just stay on screen indefinitely because of... Reasons.

Re: Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

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post #2

Gnome and KDE seem so close in polish these days, it's hard to decide which one to run and I keep on going back and forward.

It depends on if you like features and configuration options or not. If you don't like features and don't want to be able to set any configuration options, go for Gnome. Otherwise, KDE.

Re: Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

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post #2

Gnome and KDE seem so close in polish these days, it's hard to decide which one to run and I keep on going back and forward.

If you want customization(do not like the default) is safer to use KDE, with Gnome you need extensions and if you check the Gnome reddits and forums you will notice that latest updates broke the popular extensions again.

Also for accessibility reasons, AFAIK Gnome does not show the font size in the default settings app, this is the first thing that i need when I want to install Linux, I put the LiveCD in and then go and enable the zoom and large fonts.

Re: Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

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I can't be the only one that dislikes KDE's typography. I see that notification pane and aside from color, nothing gives it typographical hierarchy. It just looks odd to me.

I don't know what theme he was using but my setup looks so much nicer. It depends a lot on the theme, font choice and rendering.
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