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Thanks for your comment, I’ve really lost tracks for recent years! As far as I understand, not using e.g. stock KDE WM means I’ll lose a big chunk of KDE funct

by wruza 5y ago

Thanks for your comment, I’ve really lost tracks for recent years! As far as I understand, not using e.g. stock KDE WM means I’ll lose a big chunk of KDE functionality, or will I not? I’m afraid to go all in on custom WM-panel-tray-menu, because that easily meant weeks of configuration. This I find even coolish at home, but not at work. Maybe some popular-enough DE invented some sort of WM plugins aince then? I don’t mind working in lighter DEs like Xfce, but not sure if they play nice with modern graphics stacks and <SubsystemName>Manager things. If you mean the tree view features, Dolphin Yep, the tree view.

Macha 5y ago
Yes, swapping out the Kwin for a tiling WM will lose you some KDE functionality (for example, if your new WM provides a desktop, I wouldn't expect it to use the same context menus as Dolphin), and lead to a less integrated experience (you won't be able to configure i3 from KDE settings). I'd say if you just want a smooth experience, stick to KDE as a package.