The thing I don't like about KDE is that it is that KDE apps aren't individual components but part of a large framework. Anytime I go to install a KDE app on Arch, it wants to install like 30+ packages and unnecessary apps with it and I just end up finding something more lighter weight that doesn't have any or only a couple dependencies and it usually ends up performing a lot better.
Health of the KDE Community
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#32I've been a KDE fan for many, many years. About a year ago I got the tiling window manager bug and after a lot of fiddling I landed on Awesomewm.
However there are a few KDE apps I still cannot live without, including Dolphin, Konsole, Choqok and Yakuake.
I'm sure there are others, but they are the obvious ones I can see on my desktop right now.
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#33Been a very happy user of KDE Neon on a NUC for several years. Just keeps on chugging, and is overall a pleasure to use. Thanks!
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#34Recently got back to using KDE and it is really polished with Opensuse Tumbleweed. I never understood why Gnome got all the attention from distros when KDE feels like a superior option.
In the beginning (95-ish) Qt was license encumbered, there was serious agitation about KDE becoming popular while using it, leading to the very-open GTK based GNOME desktop competition. It was a big kerfuffle at the time.
See the History of Qt section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)
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#35I really like GNOME 40 though. KDE is nice, but GNOME 40 is simple and is "just what you need". https://forty.gnome.org
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#36Recently got back to using KDE and it is really polished with Opensuse Tumbleweed. I never understood why Gnome got all the attention from distros when KDE feels like a superior option.
Personally I had to uninstall KDE one month after I installed it, every time I installed it. It just became unstable or buddy after some time.
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#37> If you are wondering who in the 1999 cohort made most of the contributions, it’s Laurent Montel and who in the 2010 disappeared in 2018 it’s “Montel Laurent”. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a nice way to merge both
Add a .mailmap file with
Laurent Montel Montel Laurent
Re: Health of the KDE Community
#38The thing I don't like about KDE is that it is that KDE apps aren't individual components but part of a large framework. Anytime I go to install a KDE app on Arch, it wants to install like 30+ packages and unnecessary apps with it and I just end up finding something more lighter weight that doesn't have any or only a couple dependencies and it usually ends up performing a lot better.
The apps are already individual things that don't depend on each other, except in some cases where KParts are used. A KPart is kind of like an application turned into a library. Usually, this is not something users need to be concerned about. The integrated terminal in the Dolphin file manager is a Konsole KPart. openSUSE (and probably others like Fedora and Ubuntu) actually split Konsole into `konsole` and `konsole-part`, so it's not a problem.
That sounds like an Arch packaging issue, a misunderstanding of what the packages actually do or you're installing a metapackage and not realizing it.
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#39Always happy to hear good news about KDE. Recently I've installed OpenSuSe Tumbleweed for my wife (previously she was using macos and she is not 'technical') and it's great, even better than I remembered. Stable, customizable, one can make it beautiful with a minor effort.
The biggest issues I still have are not KDE related:
- touchpad experience on Linux just sucks compared to macos. Even started sponsoring the gitclear because of that. I haven't tried the mtrack yet, but lack of the reasonable configuration tool is a bit discouraging.
- there is no modern mail client for Linux. The only "serious" mail client is thunderbird. Unfortunately it hasn't received enough love/attention in the recent past :(
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#40Shout out to the great people in the KDE Community.
I was in high-school and being enamored with the open-source concept ("You mean I can modify anything I want about it?" - hah) I wanted to make my mark in a simple little way. I remember fondly when lurking around in IRC and somehow decided I would change the login screen. Got pointed to the KDE greeter channel and that is how it all started for me. I kept annoying them, did not know how to build, compile, nothing. Thanks to d_ed for answering my annoying questions, that is how it all started for me.