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> System Settings can be mentally overwhelming Either you and I are looking at a different "System Settings", or you get overwhelmed easily... The one I'm loo
by LarryMullins 4y ago
> System Settings can be mentally overwhelming
Either you and I are looking at a different "System Settings", or you get overwhelmed easily... The one I'm looking at is neatly organized into descriptive categories on the left, with a search function that searches all categories on the top. If I want to configure my mouse, I search "mouse". The mouse configuration screen has the following options:
Left handed mode
Press left and right buttons for middle-click
Pointer speed
Acceleration profile: Flat or Adaptive
Invert scroll direction
Far from overwhelming, I would say this is the bare minimum. I wish there was more. Why can I only choose between two acceleration profiles in this GUI? Why can't I tweak it? From the way you describe KDE, I should be able to tweak it. 90% of the configuration options KDE surfaces in the GUIs would have been standard fair for casual 'normie' computer users 15 years ago; it barely qualifies as a power user DE.
Use `xinput list-props ...` to see the dozens of configuration options that KDE could expose in their mouse settings GUI, but doesn't. I really do wish KDE were actually the way people like you criticize KDE for being.
> I’m just supposed to know Okular is my PDF viewer?
How is "Okular" any worse than "mudbrick trapeeze artist" aka "adobe acrobat"? Click on a PDF and Okular opens it. That's how you know, and I think that's how most people open PDFs.