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I can't speak to the kerning (it looks fine to me, I guess I'm not a font nerd) but in those screenshots, the user has selected monochrome subpixel rendering and either no or very light hinting. These together make the text a bit more blurry than it does on my own machine. And of course, it's also possible that using a better font would improve things.
How can you see subpixel rendering in a screenshot? I don’t think that’s possible.
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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You wait a bit until it is merged and you get it with updates. Then you click on it in settings.
That would take years. I use Debian Stable. I think Plasma has something like "Decorations" - can a custom decoration be used? Can one use scripts in the "Decorations"?
That would sound like a self inflicted wound. Personally I really loved emerald the window decorator along with compiz.
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
#73I don't know if the submitter here is the author of this, but if the author is here, I have just two words for them: THANK YOU! Over the past few years, UI design has been trending towards removing ALL visual cues of how to interact with software and programs. It's intensely weird that we are actually making computers HARDER to use, not easier. Need some examples? Okay! * Menus containing frequently-used program func…
It will be included in Plasma 5.27. Release schedule: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5#Future_releases
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
#74It’s always nice to read about someone contributing to open source. Looking at the screenshots I have a question for the KDE users here. I am surprised by the incorrect kerning and strange padding on display in the interface. Is that normal or is it a consequence of it being so customisable the author likes settings which leads to this result?
I've never noticed it before, but I see the same. Do you think there are any problems other than "Ne" in "New"?
https://i.imgur.com/zCDzqAe.png (2× resolution screenshot as it's from a high-DPI screen)
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
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>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 tha…
>I still can't share my screen in Slack or Teams making calls with Windows and Mac colleagues an embarrassing mess. Works fine in at least all wlroots compositors (via xdpw) and in GNOME (via xdpgtk). The Electron versions presumably don't use PW so they'll only share Xwayland windows. The browser versions will be able to share everything through xdp since all major browsers support PW. >Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 has W…
Thank you for proving my point. If you need to tinker with all that in an OS just to get a usable system, then, repeat after me, it's not ready.
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
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That would take years. I use Debian Stable. I think Plasma has something like "Decorations" - can a custom decoration be used? Can one use scripts in the "Decorations"?
That would sound like a self inflicted wound. Personally I really loved emerald the window decorator along with compiz.
Can you elaborate? What sounds like a wound? What is emerald, what is compiz and how does this all related to window borders?
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
You wait a bit until it is merged and you get it with updates. Then you click on it in settings.
That would take years. I use Debian Stable. I think Plasma has something like "Decorations" - can a custom decoration be used? Can one use scripts in the "Decorations"?
> That would take years. I use Debian Stable.
That kinda is the whole point of static releases like debian stable, ubuntu lts, red hat or windows ltsc? That you actively don't want to have any changes like these but want stable (=static) foundations to build on. (currently writing this on old stable; don't feel bothered to upgrade right now)
> I think Plasma has something like "Decorations" - can a custom decoration be used? Can one use scripts in the "Decorations"?
The software under discussion seems to be a change to the breeze window decoration so for this one probably not (yet), but e.g. for aurorae
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
#78I have a visual impairment that make it really hard for me to distinguish objects where the is little contrast. This new UI trend of one pixel borders is a big annoyance for me. I constantly click the wrong window. I actually wrote a Windows app to do something like this. It's sitting in my unfinished folder because I ran into too many issues to fix for a hobby project. The rectangle data for Windows apps seems to va…
Microsoft Windows is abysmal on this front - I have to use Microsoft Windows 10 periodically, while most of my life is spent in KDE, and the disjoint is jarring. In KDE I can precisely control and set window border thickness and colour. In Microsoft Windows 10 (and I assume 11 has continued the trend at making this even worse) I can enable a very thin border, of a themed colour, and that border disappears when the wi…
Windows 11 seems a bit better on this front than 10. I don't use either very often (mostly for gaming and sometimes at work) but I have yet to see the active window having the same color as a background one, or even be unable to tell where one window stops and the other begins.
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
#79I have a visual impairment that make it really hard for me to distinguish objects where the is little contrast. This new UI trend of one pixel borders is a big annoyance for me. I constantly click the wrong window. I actually wrote a Windows app to do something like this. It's sitting in my unfinished folder because I ran into too many issues to fix for a hobby project. The rectangle data for Windows apps seems to va…
Windows has several high-contrast themes built-in (and in Win11 they are quite a bit more aesthetically pleasing than they used to be), you can actually even toggle between normal and high-contrast via a keyboard shortcut.
Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft Windows is abysmal on this front - I have to use Microsoft Windows 10 periodically, while most of my life is spent in KDE, and the disjoint is jarring. In KDE I can precisely control and set window border thickness and colour. In Microsoft Windows 10 (and I assume 11 has continued the trend at making this even worse) I can enable a very thin border, of a themed colour, and that border disappears when the wi…
Windows 11 seems a bit better on this front than 10. I don't use either very often (mostly for gaming and sometimes at work) but I have yet to see the active window having the same color as a background one, or even be unable to tell where one window stops and the other begins.
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