Does anyone else miss KWrite? I had it configured as a very slightly more advanced Notepad.exe clone. I really enjoyed opening it for quickly writing out thoughts that crowd my ADHD brain, and I feel like the full Kate takes much longer to open up and looks much much heavier and emotionally oppressive for what I want to do.
KDE at 30
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#92Does anyone else miss KWrite? I had it configured as a very slightly more advanced Notepad.exe clone. I really enjoyed opening it for quickly writing out thoughts that crowd my ADHD brain, and I feel like the full Kate takes much longer to open up and looks much much heavier and emotionally oppressive for what I want to do.
KWrite still exists. Just install it.
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#93A bit tangential, but can you recommend any GUI applications for monitoring the system? The KDE's defualt system monitor is a bit heavy and does not provide much insights. I switched to Linux some time ago as my main system, but I miss a tool such as System Informer [1]. [1] https://www.systeminformer.com/
Resources and Mission Center are really good.
Yeah they are great, I love them. But then purists would want a QT app instead of a GTK one :)
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#94The master of ceremonies is a proper creature: https://floss.social/@kde/116673618808097094 edit: I appreciate the quality of discussion below, so far.
I lament the times when open source projects were open source software projects instead of political platforms for people who arrogantly think that their private political opinion is important enough to overshadow the project they participate in. This will undoubtedly create tensions and will lead to fewer donations, thus having a negative impact on KDE.
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#95It feels to me that a lot of the bigger ideas in KDE fell away over the years. In the 2000s I would log in every morning, open a KWord doc in one Konqueror tab, a KSpread sheet in another, and some browser tabs alongside them, then I'd launch Kate and open some files over SSH or FTP and get to work. It felt like someone had really embraced OO and applied it to every part of the desktop, and I assume something like KP…
I feel the same. A lot of big projects fell by way side over time for various reasons. Goes with the nature of experiments, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
k3b - died with the cd-rom
calligra office - creation of LibreOffice stole the thunder
konqueror - maintaining a secure browser that isn't a fork of chrome is a tall ask these days
amarok / kmail - rewrite lost features, introduced bugs, and many existing alternatives filled the gap
That said there are still a lot of good ones still there that continue to improve every day. Kate, dolphin, KDE connect, etc.
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#96I tried KDE 5 years ago and frankly I was a bit lost. Too many options and too many papercuts. Still better that the dumbed down GNOME experience but I went for Cinnamon instead.
I tried it again today and it really felt quite polished, no papercuts, no feeling of being overwhelmed, no bugs, good newcomer experience... I think this is it. They made it.
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#97I recently installed Fedora Kinoite [1] and I have been very pleasantly surprised by how stable and performant it is. I am afraid I cannot say the same for their new KDE Linux distribution [2] which in my opinion was a bit unpolished at the time. Both are immutable desktop distributions. The good news, I guess, is Kinoite stands to benefit from KDE Linux development because it mostly depends on Flatpak to install pro…
KDE Linux is not supposed to be used as your regular distribution.
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#98It feels to me that a lot of the bigger ideas in KDE fell away over the years. In the 2000s I would log in every morning, open a KWord doc in one Konqueror tab, a KSpread sheet in another, and some browser tabs alongside them, then I'd launch Kate and open some files over SSH or FTP and get to work. It felt like someone had really embraced OO and applied it to every part of the desktop, and I assume something like KP…
KDE4 killed too much momentum; many promising features and apps disappeared for whatever reason or slowly faded out into irrelevance. Stuff like KIOSlaves is still around, but never really evolved beyond what it was 20 years ago.
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#99It’s my favourite desktop environment. Simply love it and doesn’t get in my way!
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I lament the times when open source projects were open source software projects instead of political platforms for people who arrogantly think that their private political opinion is important enough to overshadow the project they participate in. This will undoubtedly create tensions and will lead to fewer donations, thus having a negative impact on KDE.
Since when was someone's gender or sexuality a "political opinion"?
When it’s someone else’s and it’s different.