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I find KDE to be pretty ugly. For instance, margins and paddings seem to be all over the place [1]. At least Gnome gets that part right. [1] https://community

I find KDE to be pretty ugly. For instance, margins and paddings seem to be all over the place [1]. At least Gnome gets that part right. [1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications

heavyset_go 6y ago
If you don't like the defaults, there are thousands of 3rd party themes that are directly listed and installable from KDE's theme preference pane.
- pseudalopex 6y ago
  Do any of them solve the problem?
  - gsich 6y ago
    No.
O_H_E 6y ago
That page looks kinda out dated, and "contains some ideas how to improve the Plasma notification system". So a lot of that is mocks and not real screenshots.
- ognarb 6y ago
  Yes, this page is full of mockups created years ago.
tylerjwilk00 6y ago
Agreed. It occupies some weird uncanny valley of design that is hard to pin point.
solarkraft 6y ago
Absolutely. It feels like they're getting there (VDG is working on it and shown some results), but they're just a few years away. ... it has been feeling like that for the few years I've been following it.
MegaDeKay 6y ago
"This page assumes the status quo as of Plasma 5.7". Plasma is now on version 5.20 so the page you linked has some pretty old examples. The KDE folks are working pretty diligently to clean stuff like this up as they find it. Nate Graham's weekly blog documents this and other updates to the project. https://pointieststick.com/ https://pointieststick.com/ I personally like KDE and it's Breeze Dark theme a lot.
- j1elo 6y ago
  Small half-joke: Only two words into the front page post I already hit a UX issue! (and a UI inconsistency) > This week (KWin’s compositing code was almost totally rewritten...) I then instinctively went on to the top of the article to check on the date, to get an idea of when was "this week" for the author... but there is no date. Oh, well :-) Opening the post itself (instead of reading from the main page) does indeed change the UI and it now happens to show the date. Loved the irony... This all shows that even for people dedicated to it, getting UI/UX right is hard.
  - ognarb 6y ago
    Nate is not a web developer and is just using a default wordpress theme.
    - j1elo 6y ago
      Totally understandable. The theme developer, however, could have strived for a bit more consistency on its default settings...
theshrike79 6y ago
KDE, to me, looks like someone designed it to be a touch interface. Everything is so LARGE and padding between elements is YUGE. The tech is cool and everything seems to work fine, but something about the UI just grates me.
- shrimp_emoji 6y ago
  ... Did you misspell GNOME here? Also, KDE is the most customizable DE of them all, and it has the most powerful features of them all (by far). Given that, all these "but it looks kinda bad!" comments sound insane. It's like choosing a push mower over a motorized because you like the finish on the handle.

heavyset_go 6y ago

If you don't like the defaults, there are thousands of 3rd party themes that are directly listed and installable from KDE's theme preference pane.

pseudalopex 6y ago
Do any of them solve the problem?
- gsich 6y ago
  No.

O_H_E 6y ago

That page looks kinda out dated, and "contains some ideas how to improve the Plasma notification system". So a lot of that is mocks and not real screenshots.

ognarb 6y ago
Yes, this page is full of mockups created years ago.

tylerjwilk00 6y ago

Agreed. It occupies some weird uncanny valley of design that is hard to pin point.

solarkraft 6y ago

Absolutely. It feels like they're getting there (VDG is working on it and shown some results), but they're just a few years away. ... it has been feeling like that for the few years I've been following it.

MegaDeKay 6y ago

"This page assumes the status quo as of Plasma 5.7". Plasma is now on version 5.20 so the page you linked has some pretty old examples. The KDE folks are working pretty diligently to clean stuff like this up as they find it. Nate Graham's weekly blog documents this and other updates to the project. https://pointieststick.com/ https://pointieststick.com/ I personally like KDE and it's Breeze Dark theme a lot.

j1elo 6y ago
Small half-joke: Only two words into the front page post I already hit a UX issue! (and a UI inconsistency) > This week (KWin’s compositing code was almost totally rewritten...) I then instinctively went on to the top of the article to check on the date, to get an idea of when was "this week" for the author... but there is no date. Oh, well :-) Opening the post itself (instead of reading from the main page) does indeed change the UI and it now happens to show the date. Loved the irony... This all shows that even for people dedicated to it, getting UI/UX right is hard.
- ognarb 6y ago
  Nate is not a web developer and is just using a default wordpress theme.
  - j1elo 6y ago
    Totally understandable. The theme developer, however, could have strived for a bit more consistency on its default settings...

theshrike79 6y ago

KDE, to me, looks like someone designed it to be a touch interface. Everything is so LARGE and padding between elements is YUGE. The tech is cool and everything seems to work fine, but something about the UI just grates me.

shrimp_emoji 6y ago
... Did you misspell GNOME here? Also, KDE is the most customizable DE of them all, and it has the most powerful features of them all (by far). Given that, all these "but it looks kinda bad!" comments sound insane. It's like choosing a push mower over a motorized because you like the finish on the handle.