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It's a huge shame that KDE applications won't really work outside of KDE. I get that most KDE developers use KDE themselves, so non-KDE desktops aren't their ma
by WhyNotHugo 4y ago
It's a huge shame that KDE applications won't really work outside of KDE. I get that most KDE developers use KDE themselves, so non-KDE desktops aren't their main focus. But it still seems a shame that so much effort is put into all these tools, but they barely run outside KDE.
For example, if one isn't using KDE, there's no configured KDE icon theme, and most applications will default to simply rendering blank icons. So buttons that have just icons are completely blank.
I also just downloaded `plasma-sdk` to try out `cuttlefish`, an application that's designed to preview the icons from the KDE breeze icon theme. But it's totally broken. The menus render some entries with the text having the same colour as the background. The icons are a mix of KDE icons, GTK icons and some black and white ones (so it's not even usable for its main purpose). Scrolling with the mouse wheel has a weird lag (no touchpad, just a mouse). Clicking on the scrollbar doesn't work, nor does dragging the little "thing" inside the scrollbar.
I don't know how many of these issues are related to me using swaywm, and how many or something else, but there's so many I don't even know where to start. If just one thing is broken, and try to figure it out and report upstream. But if almost nothing works, the same attitude doesn't really work.
- tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y agoThat sounds like an issue with your install, I've never experienced any of those issues and I would be surprised if it's a common issue considering the freedesktop.org stuff. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ The whole interoperability between desktop frameworks isn't always _perfect_, but it's worked fairly well for probably 10+ years for me (been using linux since the 90's).