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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.
It's already usable today, so I don't see why you'd need to wait for a decade.
> 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?
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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.
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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?
just a heads up, the links are dead for exploding screen snapshots: https://www.akselmo.dev/2022/10/31/assets/images/kde/outline...
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.
KDE has been a joy and is now my DE of choice.
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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.
>Next you're gonna tell me that Wayland will be usable in the next decade. It's already usable today, so I don't see why you'd need to wait for a decade.
No, it's not usable for me.
I still can't share my screen in Slack or Teams making calls with Windows and Mac colleagues an embarrassing mess.
Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 has Wayland disabled by default (why though, if Wayland is so usable?)
No scroll acceleration settings.
Currently, Wayland is one step forward, one step back. Especially that many highly used apps still haven't made the switch and that Wayland has not yet feature parity to what X11 offered.
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 w…
The overwhelming majority of the people I know who use KDE also try to not change too much from the default settings, but the settings we change are all different.
It's similar with the bells and whistles in Plasma; I probably use a single-digit percentage of them, but they are probably different set from what other users use. I am grateful for those who maintain these features, because I'm sure both that developing would be easier with fewer features and there is probably nobody who uses all of them.