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My main point of criticism of KDE, that their UIs look like they’re made by someone half asleep and looking somewhere else, is slowly, but steadily fading away.

My main point of criticism of KDE, that their UIs look like they’re made by someone half asleep and looking somewhere else, is slowly, but steadily fading away. Big props for that! There’s still a long way to go, but I can absolutely see the effort succeeding. You rock, VDG (assuming they’re behind it)! I also like that the podcasts app is responsive (in the web sense). I was originally excited about Linux on phones because I want to use the same software on my devices whether large or small. If I used this app on my phone, I‘d want to use it on the desktop as well. I strongly believe this is where software is going (only 10 years after the web) and highly welcome it. Interestingly, Linux is extremely competitive with the other ecosystems in this regard due to Apple’s cautious approach and Microsoft appearing to be asleep at the wheel again. The Linux phone may be here earlier than many of us think.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
UI per se is not my issue with KDE, But the stability of their builtin softwares and that their focus seems to be adding new features than fixing what's already there. e.g. There are several threads on Memory, CPU hogging issues with dolphin(even when not indexing). Plasma shell related issues like icons go missing etc. Obviously inspite of that, KDE is still a great option for those looking for a stable and fully featured Linux desktop environment.
- solarkraft 5y ago
  That’s my other issue. It’s so full of glitches … I hope this newfound interest in UI design will also have an effect on the sensitivity for bugs. Stability/resource usage wise I didn’t have many issues in the Wayland session at all, though. Seems like they’ve improved that a lot in the past years. I don’t use KDE for multiple reasons anymore, but I like how it usually understands what an advanced user wants to do, which no other DE really seems to. I massively appreciate that and have some hope they’ll get their act together in those areas eventually.
  - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
    May I ask what are you using now? It's like I'm discovering a new bug every single day and when I look it up it exists for years without fix e.g. Even when dolphin is replaced KDE's kio-mtp intercepts mtp-protocol and stops mtp drives from being mounted by other applications. The fix is to manually change the mtp actions[1], which is known for over 7 years but not actually fixed. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/21sloi/thought_this_might_be_of_interest_to_others_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/21sloi/thought_this_mi...
    - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
      Update: I have switched to Gnome after couple of menubar crashes. My earlier misconceptions regarding Gnome seems to because of default integrations on some distros, But vanilla gnome on arch seems to be robust, functional and is indeed beautiful.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago

UI per se is not my issue with KDE, But the stability of their builtin softwares and that their focus seems to be adding new features than fixing what's already there. e.g. There are several threads on Memory, CPU hogging issues with dolphin(even when not indexing). Plasma shell related issues like icons go missing etc. Obviously inspite of that, KDE is still a great option for those looking for a stable and fully featured Linux desktop environment.

solarkraft 5y ago
That’s my other issue. It’s so full of glitches … I hope this newfound interest in UI design will also have an effect on the sensitivity for bugs. Stability/resource usage wise I didn’t have many issues in the Wayland session at all, though. Seems like they’ve improved that a lot in the past years. I don’t use KDE for multiple reasons anymore, but I like how it usually understands what an advanced user wants to do, which no other DE really seems to. I massively appreciate that and have some hope they’ll get their act together in those areas eventually.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  May I ask what are you using now? It's like I'm discovering a new bug every single day and when I look it up it exists for years without fix e.g. Even when dolphin is replaced KDE's kio-mtp intercepts mtp-protocol and stops mtp drives from being mounted by other applications. The fix is to manually change the mtp actions[1], which is known for over 7 years but not actually fixed. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/21sloi/thought_this_might_be_of_interest_to_others_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/21sloi/thought_this_mi...
  - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
    Update: I have switched to Gnome after couple of menubar crashes. My earlier misconceptions regarding Gnome seems to because of default integrations on some distros, But vanilla gnome on arch seems to be robust, functional and is indeed beautiful.