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I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by TillE »

tecoholic wrote: post #49

This is nice. One of the reasons I still stick to the "Plastik" style and haven't moved to Breeze is the "smoothness" of the interface. This seems to bring in some definition to the interface. I know plastik feels so old and out of date. But it feels more tactile to me because of the higher gradients.

Plastik was the height of KDE style and usability for me. It looked similar to but way better than Windows XP, and KDE could do so much more.

Then KDE4 got lost in an ugly, buggy mess of transparency.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by marwis »

jstimpfle wrote: post #41
marwis wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Win10 and Win11 will draw outline using accent color if you enable "Show accent color on title bars and windows borders". There are also tools to configure it further.

Thanks for this tip, it worked on Windows 11. On Windows 10 where I had already enabled it it's a near invisible 1 pixel border.

Border Width can be changed through registry or 3rd party tools, I forgot their names but should be easy find.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by bluedino »

alex3305 wrote: post #13

I haven't touched KDE in maybe 15 years. I just always defaulted to Gnome when I'm on Linux desktop. But this looks more macOS like. Just curious, is there any reason I should try KDE today?

KDE isn't perfect but it's nice. GNOME is like some project that wanted to be like the Mac but nobody ever used it, they just saw pictures of it and they worked off that.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by xbar »

bityard wrote: post #39

I don't know if the submitter here is the author of this, but if the author is here, I have just two words for them: THANK YOU! Over the past few years, UI design has been trending towards removing ALL visual cues of how to interact with software and programs. It's intensely weird that we are actually making computers HARDER to use, not easier. Need some examples? Okay! * Menus containing frequently-used program func…

Agreed. Finding this in a KDE release would be .

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by xbar »

shmerl wrote: post #40
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #35

It’s always nice to read about someone contributing to open source. Looking at the screenshots I have a question for the KDE users here. I am surprised by the incorrect kerning and strange padding on display in the interface. Is that normal or is it a consequence of it being so customisable the author likes settings which leads to this result?

Can you please point out what that means in that sceenshot? Fonts generally got pretty good with fontconfig, but I suppose there are always some edge cases.

Perhaps lowercase o gets excessive space? I'm guessing here. It's the only element that seems even remotely mis-kerned.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by shmerl »

xbar wrote: post #55
shmerl wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please point out what that means in that sceenshot? Fonts generally got pretty good with fontconfig, but I suppose there are always some edge cases.

Perhaps lowercase o gets excessive space? I'm guessing here. It's the only element that seems even remotely mis-kerned.

I don't really see anything off about it personally.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by realgeniushere »

bityard wrote: post #42
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #35

It’s always nice to read about someone contributing to open source. Looking at the screenshots I have a question for the KDE users here. I am surprised by the incorrect kerning and strange padding on display in the interface. Is that normal or is it a consequence of it being so customisable the author likes settings which leads to this result?

I can't speak to the kerning (it looks fine to me, I guess I'm not a font nerd) but in those screenshots, the user has selected monochrome subpixel rendering and either no or very light hinting. These together make the text a bit more blurry than it does on my own machine. And of course, it's also possible that using a better font would improve things.

How can you see subpixel rendering in a screenshot? I don’t think that’s possible.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by ryantgtg »

Lex-2008 wrote: post #33
ognarb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KDE dev here. From a developer perspective, something I really love with Plasma (the 'new' branding for KDE) is that it's really modular by design. Everything on the screen is pluggable with a very simple api and can theoricaly be be swapped out or experimented with. This includes the widgets but also the visual effects. For example, Marco (a prominent Plasma hacker) just worked on a new basic tilling extension and w…

To be fair, I believe KDE is already a better desktop than Windows explorer. My fave features are "Wobbly Windows" effect and "Animated Hue" wallpaper. But I'm a nerd, so my needs are likely different from majority of the population, I guess :)

Having tabs in the file explorer (and split view) puts the experience above windows. I could see normals loving those features.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by midoridensha »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #32
slbtty wrote: post #18

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GNOME is being obsoleted by KDE.

They're different beasts. In fact, they're different enough that they have their own niches. Gnome is the boring, serious, stop-fiddling-and-get-things-done UI. KDE is the quirky uncle that lets you play with his porcelain figures. These days I prefer KDE, and I accept quirky behavior like losing a widget panel from external monitor 1 if you unplug external monitor 2, because I know it will come back after reboot/rel…

>Gnome is the boring, serious, stop-fiddling-and-get-things-done UI.

Sure, if you always want each application to be full-screen. Otherwise you can't get anything done.

Re: I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

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Post by ComputerGuru »

unknownaccount wrote: post #47

This can be accomplished on Windows11 with a custom Visual Style. Ive seen it done before on some deviantart themes. Would be cool if someone could release a stock Windows11 Visual Style with only this modified.

Just turn on accent color window borders. No third party software required.
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