Always loved kde for ease of customization. Wish it had better support for auto tiling
I can recommend krohnkite which can be found under Kwin scripts -> install additional. Can also be extended via js
KDE Plasma 5.20
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Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#22I see they still don't have any graphic designer.
That always comes up and I and many other KDE aren't bothered at all by it.
That said, I guess Open Source as a whole could always need more talented artists as long as they don't try to insert themselves as arbiters of anything UX related, for example demanding to remove every configuration option or make everything work like in Mac/iOS.
Edit, also: I guess they have multiple graphic designers/artists and if it was possible to measure I'd bet $20 that they are more skilled than the majority of people complaining :-)
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#23I see they still don't have any graphic designer.
Apart from the clock I think its not too bad.
This is awful: https://i.imgur.com/gTf25am.png
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#24People using KDE Plasma and not using some sort of rolling release distro are missing out, I think. 5.18 LTS was a very very solid release, but 5.19 and 5.20 have so much new that it's a bummer for people whose distros won't be seeing them any time soon.
On the other hand, I'm running KDE Neon (the "stable" version, insofar as there is one) where everything is supposed to "just work" and even there I got a really dumb dependency error this morning[0] that lead to KWIN almost automatically uninstalling itself to "fix" the problem. This has happened a few times in the last months - including the desktop wanting to uninstall itself.
Of course I know how to behave in that context, and I don't want to sound ungrateful since I get all of this quality software for free, but it somewhat saddens me that I still can't recommend these kinds of distros to my family.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#25So how do I install it on Ubuntu?
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#26KDE 5 Plasma is amazing. Subjectively, I feel the following about it: after over 2 decades of being extremely buggy and extremely ugly, KDE has became a culmination of desktop PC GUI design, the best I've experienced so far (tiling WMs can be better in certain tasks and settings but not universally). Manjaro with recent KDE provides me what I call "a lot like Mac but way better" experience (surely, there are aspects…
Agreed, and you can easily add proper tiling support with the Krohnkite extension, which makes anybody coming from a DWM-inspired tiling WM like Xmonad feel instantly at home.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#27>when you open several windows with the same application (like when you open several LibreOffice documents), the Task Manager will group them together. This is exactly the opposite of what I want. Why don't the designers of 21st-century desktop environments understand that my 3 PDF files have nothing to do with one another? The same goes for my terminals, my text buffers, my web pages.... Why group things that are in…
> This is exactly the opposite of what I want. Well maybe it's what everyone else wants. Either way it's just the default they're changing, one good thing about grouping in Plasma is it lets you exclude certain applications so you can exclude your PDF viewer. Alot of other environments give an all or nothing approach.
> Well maybe it's what everyone else wants.
Could you give an argument for why someone would want it?
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#28KDE 5 Plasma is amazing. Subjectively, I feel the following about it: after over 2 decades of being extremely buggy and extremely ugly, KDE has became a culmination of desktop PC GUI design, the best I've experienced so far (tiling WMs can be better in certain tasks and settings but not universally). Manjaro with recent KDE provides me what I call "a lot like Mac but way better" experience (surely, there are aspects…
QML runs like shit in VMs. That's not Plasma's fault, of course.
Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#29People using KDE Plasma and not using some sort of rolling release distro are missing out, I think. 5.18 LTS was a very very solid release, but 5.19 and 5.20 have so much new that it's a bummer for people whose distros won't be seeing them any time soon.
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Re: KDE Plasma 5.20
#30KDE 5 Plasma is amazing. Subjectively, I feel the following about it: after over 2 decades of being extremely buggy and extremely ugly, KDE has became a culmination of desktop PC GUI design, the best I've experienced so far (tiling WMs can be better in certain tasks and settings but not universally). Manjaro with recent KDE provides me what I call "a lot like Mac but way better" experience (surely, there are aspects…
We added recently more documentation around plasmoids: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/. I wouldn't qualify our documentation as great yet, but there is a currently a lot of effort in making it better.
There is also already a web view plasmoids, but it is probably included in the plasma-addons package.