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If you think gnome is good, wait till you see KDE

by PcChip 4y ago

doubled112 4y ago
I really like KDE, but there's always something that annoys me enough I move away. I try most new major releases (GNOME too), then jump back to XFCE. For example, does it use the same keyring as the rest of the applications yet? Does the WiFi menu still select an entry different than the one you click?
- _abox 4y ago
  Well, if you use gnome/GTK apps, of course it uses gnome-keyring. If you use Qt apps, it will use KDE's keyring. This is simply caused by the lack of standardisation in such elements of Linux desktop environments. I tend to use mostly Qt apps, because they look the most 'native' on KDE and have the best integration. They also have the same philosophy (the more user choice and settings the better) which I subscribe to, so I naturally gravitate towards them. And no the wifi applet always worked correctly for me (I don't use wifi on my main desktop but on laptops it works fine for me) There's also things I don't like with KDE but there's almost always an option to change it. Whereas with Gnome there is almost never any such option, it could be there is an extension that does it but having too many extensions tends to drag you into a quagmire of version dependencies making it really hard to upgrade. The one thing I really don't like about KWin is that the virtual desktops of each display can't be switched independently like with i3 for example. They're all stuck together. But this is a minor inconvenience compared to all the things I dislike about Gnome. Of course YMMV and that is why we have Linux <3
  - Vogtinator 4y ago
    FTR, kwallet implements the FDO Secrets API so gnome apps should be able to use it as well unless they somehow hardcode GKR.
    - doubled112 4y ago
      This wasn't true last time I checked, but it looks like it was a fairly recent merge. https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwallet/-/merge_requests/11 https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwallet/-/merge_requests/1... Consider me excited.
RunSet 4y ago
Yeah after they see KDE they'll really think gnome is good.
- _abox 4y ago
  What's so bad about KDE? I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty good but Gnome's design decisions and philosophy don't match my preferences.

If you think gnome is good, wait till you see KDE

by PcChip 4y ago

If you think gnome is good, wait till you see KDE

I really like KDE, but there's always something that annoys me enough I move away. I try most new major releases (GNOME too), then jump back to XFCE. For example, does it use the same keyring as the rest of the applications yet? Does the WiFi menu still select an entry different than the one you click?

_abox 4y ago
Well, if you use gnome/GTK apps, of course it uses gnome-keyring. If you use Qt apps, it will use KDE's keyring. This is simply caused by the lack of standardisation in such elements of Linux desktop environments. I tend to use mostly Qt apps, because they look the most 'native' on KDE and have the best integration. They also have the same philosophy (the more user choice and settings the better) which I subscribe to, so I naturally gravitate towards them. And no the wifi applet always worked correctly for me (I don't use wifi on my main desktop but on laptops it works fine for me) There's also things I don't like with KDE but there's almost always an option to change it. Whereas with Gnome there is almost never any such option, it could be there is an extension that does it but having too many extensions tends to drag you into a quagmire of version dependencies making it really hard to upgrade. The one thing I really don't like about KWin is that the virtual desktops of each display can't be switched independently like with i3 for example. They're all stuck together. But this is a minor inconvenience compared to all the things I dislike about Gnome. Of course YMMV and that is why we have Linux <3
- Vogtinator 4y ago
  FTR, kwallet implements the FDO Secrets API so gnome apps should be able to use it as well unless they somehow hardcode GKR.
  - doubled112 4y ago
    This wasn't true last time I checked, but it looks like it was a fairly recent merge. https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwallet/-/merge_requests/11 https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwallet/-/merge_requests/1... Consider me excited.

RunSet 4y ago

Yeah after they see KDE they'll really think gnome is good.

_abox 4y ago
What's so bad about KDE? I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty good but Gnome's design decisions and philosophy don't match my preferences.