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Its sheer customizability makes customizing it into a real task, though. Every time I start sifting through its settings my eyes begin to glaze over. It’s gott

Its sheer customizability makes customizing it into a real task, though. Every time I start sifting through its settings my eyes begin to glaze over. It’s gotten better over the years but still has a long way to go. Something that would help a lot is if KDE came prepackaged with a handful of different full configurations that could be easily flipped between to serve as starting points.

lproven 4y ago
This. And in the thousand options to twiddle, there aren't the options I want. I'd like a panel that when vertical did not scale the controls on it, just kept them the same size but rearranged them. I want a 4- or 5-column vertical panel with nothing growing or shrinking in size. I'd like the Xfce option to constrain the Start button to a single line of text+label. I'd like the Xfce option to set the size and font of the clock. I rather liked wm2. I would like the option of window title bars on the left or right edge, or even the bottom. Why not? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Wm2.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Wm2.png I liked BeOS' title bars as tabs, not whole width. Can I have those, please? Then if I stack windows on top of one another, I would like to move the tabs so they don't overlap. Or better still, have them automatically rearrange themselves. I hate the trend of having no menu bar, just a hamburger menu. Can I disable that globally, please? I want a menu bar in every app, enforced by the desktop. Currently some apps have it, some don't. I do not want desktop gadgets or widgets or plasmoids or whatever they are called. Not at all, not ever. A tick box to disable them globally might be useful? Maybe integrate with Conky for a desktop status monitor. I used to have a machine with 3 screens arranged in a line, with the bottom edges level. (Don't have space in the home office, sadly.) If I can't have a working vertical taskbar, can I have one taskbar across the bottom of 2 or 3 screens, please? KDE 3 could do that no problem.

lproven 4y ago

This. And in the thousand options to twiddle, there aren't the options I want. I'd like a panel that when vertical did not scale the controls on it, just kept them the same size but rearranged them. I want a 4- or 5-column vertical panel with nothing growing or shrinking in size. I'd like the Xfce option to constrain the Start button to a single line of text+label. I'd like the Xfce option to set the size and font of the clock. I rather liked wm2. I would like the option of window title bars on the left or right edge, or even the bottom. Why not? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Wm2.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Wm2.png I liked BeOS' title bars as tabs, not whole width. Can I have those, please? Then if I stack windows on top of one another, I would like to move the tabs so they don't overlap. Or better still, have them automatically rearrange themselves. I hate the trend of having no menu bar, just a hamburger menu. Can I disable that globally, please? I want a menu bar in every app, enforced by the desktop. Currently some apps have it, some don't. I do not want desktop gadgets or widgets or plasmoids or whatever they are called. Not at all, not ever. A tick box to disable them globally might be useful? Maybe integrate with Conky for a desktop status monitor. I used to have a machine with 3 screens arranged in a line, with the bottom edges level. (Don't have space in the home office, sadly.) If I can't have a working vertical taskbar, can I have one taskbar across the bottom of 2 or 3 screens, please? KDE 3 could do that no problem.