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I am so grateful for KDE. We in the free software world are lucky to have such a powerful, complete, thoughtfully designed desktop. The consistency of the inter

by dTal 5y ago

I am so grateful for KDE. We in the free software world are lucky to have such a powerful, complete, thoughtfully designed desktop. The consistency of the interface, and the reliability of "there's a switch for that", reminds me of Windows 95 of all things. And for all that, it's clean and lightweight. For the proverbial user demographic of "expert in a hurry", nothing else even comes close.

pjmlp 5y ago
Which builds on top of Qt framework and related tooling.
1_player 5y ago
Possibly very controversial rant ahead. I used to love KDE 1 and 2, since KDE 3 they've adopted this really bland interface I can't push myself to like. It's like there's only three available colours: light grey, light desaturated blue, and white. The whole desktop is a desaturated grey-bluish interface with grey icons that doesn't have any personality, feels cool, bland and insipid. And when it's not grey, it's icons without any cohesion with the rest of the system using all colours of the spectrum, giving them a Fisher-Price look. It feels as inviting as if it were the user interface for a medical device, smelling of bleach and trying its hardest not to have any personality whatsoever. One can dislike GNOME how much they want but at least there is a soul to the design, like there was a soul to the original Windows 95 design. At least it used colours with more than 10% saturation. I really wish KDE would stop adding features and knobs and more settings panels and just adopted an OPINIONATED design guideline. Choose a brand colour, explore the palette a little bit that's not grey and blue grey and white grey.
- shrimp_emoji 5y ago
  All the "soul" in the world doesn't make up for it being toy software verging on unusability because the devs were so OPINIONATED that you don't need that feature.
sklearncowboy 5y ago
No doubt. I love it so much. I turn off all the desktop effects but translucency and then it is just instantly responsive and beautiful. I can't even imagine using anything else at this point.
- shrimp_emoji 5y ago
  I disable desktop composition on startup. I pay with loss of transparency in my terminal, but that buys the snappiness and responsiveness of LXQt or the Windows DE, which I always assumed was something KDE couldn't have since fate is only so kind!

by dTal 5y ago

pjmlp 5y ago

Which builds on top of Qt framework and related tooling.

1_player 5y ago

Possibly very controversial rant ahead. I used to love KDE 1 and 2, since KDE 3 they've adopted this really bland interface I can't push myself to like. It's like there's only three available colours: light grey, light desaturated blue, and white. The whole desktop is a desaturated grey-bluish interface with grey icons that doesn't have any personality, feels cool, bland and insipid. And when it's not grey, it's icons without any cohesion with the rest of the system using all colours of the spectrum, giving them a Fisher-Price look. It feels as inviting as if it were the user interface for a medical device, smelling of bleach and trying its hardest not to have any personality whatsoever. One can dislike GNOME how much they want but at least there is a soul to the design, like there was a soul to the original Windows 95 design. At least it used colours with more than 10% saturation. I really wish KDE would stop adding features and knobs and more settings panels and just adopted an OPINIONATED design guideline. Choose a brand colour, explore the palette a little bit that's not grey and blue grey and white grey.

shrimp_emoji 5y ago
All the "soul" in the world doesn't make up for it being toy software verging on unusability because the devs were so OPINIONATED that you don't need that feature.

sklearncowboy 5y ago

No doubt. I love it so much. I turn off all the desktop effects but translucency and then it is just instantly responsive and beautiful. I can't even imagine using anything else at this point.

shrimp_emoji 5y ago
I disable desktop composition on startup. I pay with loss of transparency in my terminal, but that buys the snappiness and responsiveness of LXQt or the Windows DE, which I always assumed was something KDE couldn't have since fate is only so kind!