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Anyone think that ubuntu around 2011, final days of Gnome 2, really had perfected the desktop UI experience, before all the forays into wanton novelty for noveltys sake made it the confusing mess it became later? To think that a linux distro had the almost ideal desktop UI realised and then squandered it all away, seems puzzling now.
>To think that a linux distro had the almost ideal desktop UI realised and then squandered it all away, seems puzzling now. Hard to say how much truth is in this story, but there was some speculation that this was caused by Microsoft. They started to make some noise about Linux desktop infringing their patents, and while Novell (who was contributing to KDE) signed patent-sharing deal, neither Red Hat nor Canonical (b…
Anyone think that ubuntu around 2011, final days of Gnome 2, really had perfected the desktop UI experience, before all the forays into wanton novelty for noveltys sake made it the confusing mess it became later? To think that a linux distro had the almost ideal desktop UI realised and then squandered it all away, seems puzzling now.
This is quite old. I think Amarok's Qt5 port didn't get finished, and I think Elisa is the new KDE music player: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa Also CD Burning? I think even in 2017 PCs and Laptops didn't come with CD drives. Personally, I like KDE for the small touches. Like the file browser having an integrated terminal that follows the directories you're browsing. If you want to see what the KDE's Design…
> I think Elisa is the new KDE music player Just installed it. Holy fuzzy fuckballs, what a punch in the gut. There are icons, but no buttons and menus. Can't figure out how to add a music file, so the program fails at its fundamental task. Disabled icons are not greyed out and have no tooltips. 20% of the space is taken away by some blue-green bar with a big honking picture of a CD. The separator widgets between the…
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> I think Elisa is the new KDE music player Just installed it. Holy fuzzy fuckballs, what a punch in the gut. There are icons, but no buttons and menus. Can't figure out how to add a music file, so the program fails at its fundamental task. Disabled icons are not greyed out and have no tooltips. 20% of the space is taken away by some blue-green bar with a big honking picture of a CD. The separator widgets between the…
I recommend Sayonara as a good Qt music player with a solid Amarok-like interface: https://sayonara-player.com/index.php