I installed and deinstalled. I have a 4k monitor, somehow everything looks like 1984. fonts not sharp, I can count the pixels on the screen. It s enough. I quit.
KDE Plasma 5.20
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Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#152Serious question: I enabled a Plasma option to make windows transparent when I hover over their corresponding 'application rectangle' (sorry, not sure what to call it) in the panel. It drives me mad but I just can't figure out how I everenabled it. Ditto with transparent menus. Can anyone advise? In general I'm very happy with Plasma but it does expose UI options that can really harm the experience.
Configure Task Manager (get there by right-clicking on the task manager panel that you're talking about).
Appearance (tab) -- and deselect 'Highlight Windows when hovering over tasks'.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#153Windows 10 look and feel for your Linux desktop.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing but reminds me once again of how little respect developers have for spending resources like GPUs and instruction cycles for "bling" essentially.
I am always saddened a bit (as you can probably tell) that my desktop machine is easily 1000x more capable in terms of compute and rendering than my desktop in 1995 and yet is no more responsive, no quicker, no less of a burden on the underlying machine.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Well maybe it's what everyone else wants. It's not what I want either, and it's not what most other Linux users I know want either. It's copying the behavior of MacOS, plain and simple, and I disagree with them doing that. I don't use MacOS because I don't like MacOS, and the last thing I want is MacOS-like Linux.
> It's copying the behavior of MacOS, plain and simple And of Windows 7-8-10 (and of Unity). And the opposite is just copying the behavior of Windows 95-2000 (XP would already group taskbar buttons by default although it still couldn't "pin" them and required separate launcher buttons). And, by the way, MacOS doesn't group all the windows by default, some get a separate icon when launched (at least they did some year…
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Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#155Sorry for the snarky comment but that you can clearly see the promoted KRunner search box flickering and reflowing in the promotional video is exemplary for the quality differences between mac, windows and linux desktop environments.
> Sorry for the snarky comment but that you can clearly see the promoted KRunner search box flickering and reflowing in the promotional video is exemplary for the quality differences between mac, windows and linux desktop environments. You don't need to be sorry, just give me slme freedom when I answer, I'm not tryingnto be snarky but to explain something extremely important :-) I used Mac for three years. In my opin…
You are right that all desktop environments have their issues and sure open source gives you more freedom. But:
1. on mac os you can press cmd+backtick to cycle through the windows of the current app
2. except for some exceptions keyboard shortcuts are pretty unified across all apps on mac os and can even be configured in a single global place
3. from my biased point of view of being a software developer myself: If I see a file chooser modal component that locks all interaction then I see a wrong choice in a UI component that does not fit the usecase. But if I see a rendering glitch of a component in a promotional video, it looks to me as if the whole state space of the component or even of the GUI stack is ill defined. Visual states like this [1] should not appear. If they are inside a promotional video I assume that some people have seen it happening and either did not care or it is very hard to fix because the issue is rooted deeply in the system. Maybe I overreact but I stumble across glitches like this all the time I try to use linux on the desktop.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#156Does it now support using two monitors with different scaling factors? With display calibration? This is what is holding me back at the moment: heterogenous scaling is only available in wayland, but color calibration (colord-kde) only works in X11. I think I'll give Gnome another try this time around.
I had the same issue with my 14,0" WQHD (2560x1440) laptop screen and my external monitor. I wanted to scale up only the laptop's screen so that I can read the text on it, but then my external monitor got scaled too large. After using it for months like that I solved this by simply setting the resolution on the laptop to 1920x1080, and scaling to 1. I felt really stupid after that I did not do this sooner.
That's not an optimal solution though, because you're relying on your screen to do non-integer scaling and you'll have blurrier fonts etc. as a result.
If your software supports non-integer scaling it can render things with that knowledge and give you crisp edges on the edge of text and UI elements.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#157A line-up of comments from a frequent reviewer: "The Year of the Linux dissatisfaction"
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-year-of-dissatisfa...
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#158Windows 10 look and feel for your Linux desktop. That isn't necessarily a bad thing but reminds me once again of how little respect developers have for spending resources like GPUs and instruction cycles for "bling" essentially. I am always saddened a bit (as you can probably tell) that my desktop machine is easily 1000x more capable in terms of compute and rendering than my desktop in 1995 and yet is no more respons…
I don't mean to sound snarky, but you can also just not install a DE? Window managers like i3 and Awesomewm don't use the GPU at all.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#159Still an awful UI. Even that clock in the bottom right - what is going on with padding there? Flickering, poor layout, poor icons. It is all wrong. KDE needs to pay more attention to UI consistency and keep it more streamlined - needs polish. I’d love to use it, but the UI just feels so wrong.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#160Windows 10 look and feel for your Linux desktop. That isn't necessarily a bad thing but reminds me once again of how little respect developers have for spending resources like GPUs and instruction cycles for "bling" essentially. I am always saddened a bit (as you can probably tell) that my desktop machine is easily 1000x more capable in terms of compute and rendering than my desktop in 1995 and yet is no more respons…
I don't mean to sound snarky, but you can also just not install a DE? Window managers like i3 and Awesomewm don't use the GPU at all.
FWIW I don't consider it snarky, I don't use KDE. Used TWM for a long time and lately LXDE for when I want something more desktop like. But I'm also a kind of weird case in that I want to be able to run X11 apps on my laptop, which is a win10 install, so running a local X server (VcXsrv).
I find LXDE as a DE fairly lightweight and not too troublesome. The Qt version had some issues with my older X server (Qt for some software defined radio apps that use Qt rather than Gtk or other toolkits).