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I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by sdwvit »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #6
thesuitonym wrote: post #3

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KDE getting window borders, Gnome getting thumbnails in the file picker, what's going on? Next you're gonna tell me that Wayland will be usable in the next decade.

As stated by one of the core KDE contributors, they (KDE team) want to make KDE appealing for regular users more, thus KDE6 work is focused on bugfixing and polishing the UX. https://pointieststick.com/2022/10/28/this-week-in-kde-next-...

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by tmtvl »

sdwvit wrote: post #9
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #2

> But what happens if shadows are disabled? > Something cheeky happens! I actually draw the shadows with 0% alpha channel! Does that still pay the performance cost to "draw" them, or does it get optimized away?

KDE uses gpu acceleration for its ui. So that should be a negligible impact on performance. I am unsure about if you even have shadows with CPU rendering.

Using software rendering instead of OpenGL disables most if not all effects from what I remember.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

alex3305 wrote: post #13

I haven't touched KDE in maybe 15 years. I just always defaulted to Gnome when I'm on Linux desktop. But this looks more macOS like. Just curious, is there any reason I should try KDE today?

>is there any reason I should try KDE today

The DE is a personal preference thing. It's nobody's job to convince you to try anything.

It's up to you to decide to try it if you're curious.

Since you haven't tried KDE in 15 years, you've probably missed a lot.

There are also countless KDE Reviews online and on YouTube.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by warning26 »

alex3305 wrote: post #13

I haven't touched KDE in maybe 15 years. I just always defaulted to Gnome when I'm on Linux desktop. But this looks more macOS like. Just curious, is there any reason I should try KDE today?

I mean, what do you have to lose? Install it and see how you like it!

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Post by ognarb »

alex3305 wrote: post #13

I haven't touched KDE in maybe 15 years. I just always defaulted to Gnome when I'm on Linux desktop. But this looks more macOS like. Just curious, is there any reason I should try KDE today?

KDE dev here. From a developer perspective, something I really love with Plasma (the 'new' branding for KDE) is that it's really modular by design. Everything on the screen is pluggable with a very simple api and can theoricaly be be swapped out or experimented with. This includes the widgets but also the visual effects. For example, Marco (a prominent Plasma hacker) just worked on a new basic tilling extension and with a public api that allows other to build more advanced tilling scripts: https://notmart.org/blog/2022/10/kwin-and-tiling/

From an user point of view, I often try to not change too much default settings, but there are some really nice feature I enjoy. kde connect is particularly nice for the media player integration with my phone). Yakuake is a nice dropdown terminal. The wayland port is really smooth, there is a lot of features everywhere and I often make use of a big percentage.

Oblivious if you are fine with GNOME, this is also fine. We have some different vision on how a open source desktop should look and behave but we do share a dream to someday be a good replacement for Windows for a large part of the population (not nerds).

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