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Nice, having a new alternative to virt-manager is great, especially a Qt one. Unfortunate it's using Kirigami and Qt Quick, I always felt the appearance and fun
by fishgoesblub 1y ago
Nice, having a new alternative to virt-manager is great, especially a Qt one. Unfortunate it's using Kirigami and Qt Quick, I always felt the appearance and functionality is much worse compared to Qt Widgets.
- MegaDeKay 1y agoIndeed, an alternative to virt-manager would be more than welcome. "What, you want to search the XML for a text string? Why would you want to do that? Undo? That's crazy talk!" I had hoped KDE was over the K-named thing, but I guess not. At least Karton is better than Kvirt-manager.
- panzi 1y agoKarton is German for cardboard and is often used as short for Karton Schachtel (cardboard box), so I guess it's about boxing. A lot of the time the German word for something is similar to the English word just with a K instead of a C. And I think a lot of KDE developers are German. So that makes sense to me.
- shmerl 1y agoI think Qt Quick is a pretty generic level, you can make a lot of different interfaces with it. Kirigami is more specific.
- heavyset_go 1y agoPlasma's shell is in Kirigami and Qt Quick, it couldn't be more consistent and integrated into the DE than that.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoUnfortunate it's using Kirigami and Qt Quick, I always felt the appearance and functionality is much worse compared to Qt Widgets.
- hxorr 1y agoYeah, that must be why plasma has always felt so janky to me... Even just simple stuff like simple menu launcher or task manager I can always get into an unexpected state or weird inconsistent behaviour... I like KDE apps though, usually end up using those together with something like lxqt or xfce
- righthand 1y agoThat's the QML render jank that requires a commercial Qt license to avoid. But hey at least you get to write JSON-like syntax to build apps.