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Microsoft Windows is abysmal on this front - I have to use Microsoft Windows 10 periodically, while most of my life is spent in KDE, and the disjoint is jarring
by Jedd 4y ago
Microsoft Windows is abysmal on this front - I have to use Microsoft Windows 10 periodically, while most of my life is spent in KDE, and the disjoint is jarring.
In KDE I can precisely control and set window border thickness and colour.
In Microsoft Windows 10 (and I assume 11 has continued the trend at making this even worse) I can enable a very thin border, of a themed colour, and that border disappears when the window is no longer in focus. This means a couple of terminal windows (eg gitbash) have near impossible to discern edges when they're overlapping.
On top of this, some Microsoft applications seem to break their own styling rules (Office apps, say) which I suspect is the kind of issue that stalled your project.
- Ayesh 4y agoYeah, I recently started to use KDE Plasma with Fedora (after Gnome left a sour taste), and the amount of customizations it allows is mind-blowing. This may be common knowledge, but as a newcomer to KDE, these very precise controls are quite a fresh breath from OSs like Win10/11 and Mac OS. Reminded me of those Windows 98 shell customizations. Windows seems to be going backwards when it comes to customizations; there are only a few customizations allowed in Windows 11 now.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoWindows 11 seems a bit better on this front than 10. I don't use either very often (mostly for gaming and sometimes at work) but I have yet to see the active window having the same color as a background one, or even be unable to tell where one window stops and the other begins.
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- Archelaos 4y ago> In KDE I can precisely control and set window border thickness and colour. What I do not comprehend is the logic behind why Windows does not support such in my view easy to implement choices.
- ntauthority 4y agoIt does, under the accessibility options. 'Contrast themes' allow fairly fine-grained customization, still, and a lot of legacy values that have been there since Windows 95 are still supported otherwise to some extent albeit sometimes hidden.
- Jedd 4y agoI've hunted through Ease of Access (as it's called in Win10), and trawled through forums, trying to find a superior solution -- but the best I could find, and manage, is shown here: https://imgur.com/a/WgzR8j3 https://imgur.com/a/WgzR8j3 Obviously with a busier amount of text on fore / rear terminals, and more than just two terminals -- that lack of a clear border becomes a massive confusion. If you've found a better configuration, please do share.