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Apart from the clock I think its not too bad.
This is awful: https://i.imgur.com/gTf25am.png
I has been a decade since I used KDE. It was eating too much memory of slow computer. I always missed a desktop environment for power users, instead of one aiming for the average user. Kde always the best one with this objective
> I always missed a desktop environment for power users, instead of one aiming for the average user. What types of things make a big difference for you? When I sit at my computer, it's to do something in an application. The desktop environment doesn't do much for me once I've launched the program that I'm actually there to use, does it? I'm generally pretty happy in Ubuntu or Windows or macOS or iPadOS.
I've been trying to simulate the use of i3wm inside KDE for a while now, most of the online tutorials end up failing as some floating toolbar from KDE ends up grabbing focus and breaks the i3wm workflow. If anyone has gotten this to work with the latest builds, I'd be happy to try out their configs.
I've also tried out the alternatives of krohnkite (hi esjeon!) but what really breaks KDE is that you can't assign a workspace to each monitor. I have 3 monitors and I can independently assign each workspace to each monitor in i3wm and you can switch between them really easily. Its a massive productivity boost which keeps me sticking to i3wm even though KDE is more fully featured (blue-tooth, OSD etc...)
A line-up of comments from a frequent reviewer: "The Year of the Linux dissatisfaction" https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-year-of-dissatisfa...
Serious 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'.
Good job, as expected by the Plasma team. I really feel like this is a big step in the right direction. A personal wish however would be that we got a more modern look to more desktop environments. Both Gnome, Plasma and Pantheon (default in Elementary OS) are talked about as the best looking desktop environments, but I'd be lying if I said that any of them looked awesome. There's just something about them that make…
Good job, as expected by the Plasma team. I really feel like this is a big step in the right direction. A personal wish however would be that we got a more modern look to more desktop environments. Both Gnome, Plasma and Pantheon (default in Elementary OS) are talked about as the best looking desktop environments, but I'd be lying if I said that any of them looked awesome. There's just something about them that make…
Default GNOME theming has been quite atrocious (to me), but I've been using Arc-Dark with Papirus icons and Noto Sans fonts (usually already packaged in Debian-based distributions). I couldn't be more satisfied, and they play well with Nord (from Arctic Ice Studio) color themes.
I’ve been using Plasma for years, but after this release talking so much about the wayland improvements, the actual result is more than disappointing. First, to explain my setup: I've got a Dell UP2718Q in landscape, 3840x2160, 10-bit in DCI-P3 colorspace at 1.5x scale at 60Hz, side-by-side with a Fujitsu Siemens P17-2 in portrait, 1024x1280, 8-bit in sRGB colorspace at 1x scale at 75Hz 10-bit support isn’t there yet…
> Overall it’s a good start, but still not quite there yet. If you mean Wayland, both the linked article and the video within the article acknowledge this, calling Wayland a work-in-progress. I too am looking forward to the day they get there.
It’s getting better, but no linux distro is currently on a similar level as windows or mac in this regard
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Because having extra screenspace to keep docs/chat/... on is nice and an old screen is good enough for that?
Is it? It apparently is not good enough for the main screen. The thing is that scaling works just fine if all your displays use the same one. Two 4k screens -> awesome. Two fhd screen -> works just fine. It is only the combination of one hires and one lowres screen that is problematic. So my maybe naive take away is that if you care that your main screen is 4k, then no your old screen is not good enough. And if you t…
Even if money was no issue and I could have two screens of the same quality, I’d still keep the old screen as a third screen.
For most people, more screens = better, but for me there’s also the fact that to actually design content, you need to be able to verify what this content is going to look like on the devices the users are going to use.
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> I always missed a desktop environment for power users, instead of one aiming for the average user. What types of things make a big difference for you? When I sit at my computer, it's to do something in an application. The desktop environment doesn't do much for me once I've launched the program that I'm actually there to use, does it? I'm generally pretty happy in Ubuntu or Windows or macOS or iPadOS.
You're lucky to have a workflow that depends in just one application and one window, then.