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As much as I want to like KDE and agree with some of its principles (such as its all-too-uncommon lack of fear of proper menubars) I have a hard time using it l
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
As much as I want to like KDE and agree with some of its principles (such as its all-too-uncommon lack of fear of proper menubars) I have a hard time using it long term because even after years of effort going into polishing it, it still has that distinct “designed by programmers” feel to it with awkward UI layout and whitespace distribution and quirky idiosyncrasies smattered throughout. I get why it has ardent fans but I don’t think it’s for everybody.
- cpach 4y agoAre there any FOSS desktop environments that executes better in those areas?
- kitsunesoba 4y agoJust about anything GTK-based. GNOME takes minimalism too far but is undeniably polished, but Cinnamon and XFCE get much closer to a balance between good UI/UX and configurability.
- mrbadger 4y agoCinnamon works for me. KDE was buggy, unreliable and annoying when I tried it--admittedly some time ago. And the fetish for naming everything with an initial letter K: kindergarten stuff. Too much effort on making every last thing customisable and not enough on making it work?
- eliaspro 4y agoOn the calendar front, Kalendar [1] has picked up KOrganizer's tab and is doing a great job at it: [1] https://apps.kde.org/kalendar/ https://apps.kde.org/kalendar/
- kombine 4y agoI'm not a design expert, but KDE looks absolutely fine to me. Maybe because I'm a programmer and it was designed by people like me for me.
- javier2 4y agoSame for me. And I am even a programmer. I have settled on Gnome for the past ~five years.