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Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by GreenWatermelon »

alpaca128 wrote: post #138
dddgghhbbfblk wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently installed Fedora with KDE Plasma on a new computer and I can't say I feel the same way. The UI is still clunky (eg the file explorer is clunky) and I'm running into minor bugs pretty regularly. Windows will be sized incorrectly after a restore sometimes (failing to take into account the bar I added at the top), switching between multiple windows of the same program and a separate program seems non-determin…

It's rare to see a perfectly stable desktop UI in general. Even on my Mac and iPhone minor bugs are almost a daily occurrence. But KDE especially is a combination of huge scope and limited resources, whenever I used it there was always something obviously unpolished.

And I much prefer "unpolished due to resource constraints" to the outright malice that is windows.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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monegator wrote: post #110
Oanid wrote: post #81

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I'd have to disagree with you on that one. I recently migrated to Fedora from Windows 11, which gave me the chance to try Plasma, GNOME, and a couple other desktops. Plasma is exactly what I don't want in a DE. It’s extremely configurable, but also overwhelming, and I don’t think that’s something the average user would feel comfortable navigating. I ended up choosing GNOME. It feels visually cohesive, and the design…

Dude, default plasma breeze theme, remove rounded corners, you have the windows 10 interface. What else do you want?

There is no default breeze theme unfortunatley, at least not one that isn't a function of time because they can't help themselves from messing with it instead of crating a new theme.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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hnlmorg wrote: post #73
while_true_ wrote: post #71

"Plasma" is an awkward name for a television app. First image that comes to mind is the old plasma 50-inch I used to have. Damn thing weighed nearly 100 pounds and was really power-hungry.

“Plasma” isn’t the name of the television app. It’s “Big Screen”. “Plasma” just refers to the desktop environment: https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/ So this is a “Big Screen” UI for KDE Plasma.

Plasma was also a stupid name for the DE, especially when it already had a better name that everyone knows.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by account42 »

drnick1 wrote: post #209
Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #161

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> don't connect your TV to the Internet 5G fixes this

Don't buy such a TV, or mod it by removing the cellular modem. Same problem with cars, but generally quite easily solved.

For cars that's going to be illegal (or at least make it illegal to use the vehicle on public roads) at some point if it isn't already in your jurisdiction.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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The_President wrote: post #176
shevy-java wrote: post #89

Does anyone know whether Nate's donation-daemon is disabled on this device, by default? Because if it is, then this invites to a critical follow-up question: aka WHY is it disabled there, but not by default elsewhere for regular users of KDE. Nate, via his biased blog entries, constantly tries to reason how vital it is to pressure people (sorry; "voluntarily remind them that donations are acceptable for the KDE devs"…

For the sake of long term success of the KDE project - it needs a major public financial, secuirity, and bug audit. It would be worth seeing if the KDE project would use donation money to cover outside firms to audit their operations and code.

There is a term for making user-hostile changes for the sake of success: enshittification.

I'd rather not have free software turn into shareware.

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