KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown

Post by dviola » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

jfreax wrote: post #5

Scarbutt wrote: post #3

It is because that the "best" apps for Linux distros are written with GTK the reason for KDE being much less mainstream than Gnome?

Are you sure about that? I would think the exact opposite, that there are more good QT/KDElibs programs then GTK ones. And more recently more and more apps switch to QT (like wireshark for example). And I heard somewhere that Gnome is very popular in the US, but everywhere else KDE is slightly more favored (apart from all the small DEs and WMs).

Post by k-mcgrady » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 8:33 PM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #27

Oi. I wish the nice designers of Silicon Valley could give some "pull requests" easily to the KDE team. The design is such a mix of things that don't go together -- some places of translucency, others don't, the pop ups are mostly flat yet the calculator has shadows, the search results and bookmarks have borders on every row yet the launch menu doesn't, the spacing between items in the left side of dolphin is off (to…

Post by shmerl » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 8:41 PM UTC

Post by shmerl » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 8:45 PM UTC

mwfunk wrote: post #23

bmn_ wrote: post #8

A big raised middle finger goes to the developers who thought it was a good idea to make it impossible to opt out of akonadi, nepomuk, baloo, activities, monochrome tray icons, that fucking cashew icon and having an additional separate colour scheme just for the task bar. All of KDE is configurable and can be switched off, except these "innovations". Still using KDE, because it's the least bad desktop environment, bu…

It must be awesome for the KDE developers to have such appreciative users with such constructive attitudes. It really makes you wonder why so many people who volunteer on open source projects get burned out on it after a while, or why so many mailing lists/forums/etc. for those projects have a unfortunate tendency to devolve into flamewars, bikeshedding, whining, and everyone crapping on everyone else for no particul…

Post by bad_user » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 9:38 PM UTC

s_kilk wrote: post #6

Scarbutt wrote: post #3

It is because that the "best" apps for Linux distros are written with GTK the reason for KDE being much less mainstream than Gnome?

I'd say it's got more to do with Ubuntu initially being Gnome-based than anything else. Also, KDE (until very recently) wasn't helped by it's unusually hideous default theme and icon set.