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I use KDE every day. It's totally fair if people notice that stuff; I have many friends who do, but not everyone does (like me). I care more about functionality

I use KDE every day. It's totally fair if people notice that stuff; I have many friends who do, but not everyone does (like me). I care more about functionality. In which case KDE is just about fine. I guess the people who use KDE don't maybe care about this sort of polish enough, which is why it doesn't get fixed?

codr7 1y ago
Likewise, none of that bothers me as much as Apple's design over function madness lately.
bundie 1y ago
I dunno how to explain it, but to me, Plasma looks "bad" in a "good," or should I say "consistent," way. Like, it looks "bad," but it's honestly not that bad.
graemep 1y ago
I do not care much. I do use third party themes but I suspect they have the same problems. I just have some colour preferences and like pretty icons. I prefer to have third party apps icons overridden by the icon theme, but then I can just use another icon theme.
orev 1y ago
It’s very easy to become blind to UX issues even after just a few exposures to it. Once you “figure it out”, it’s not a problem anymore. The thing is that you can easily lose many potential users who don’t want to give any time at all to “figuring it out”.
mih 1y ago
I am one such user. KDE Plasma has been my daily driver ever since the early days of version 5. Admittedly am not someone with a keen eye for design. There might be some rough edges and the occasional annoyance, but you quickly get used to it. The desktop/windowing system for me is just a means to launch an application which is where I spend most of my time. This often happens to be a browser, a terminal and IDE etc. The design of such apps takes more precedence for me than some margin of the control center items where I couldn't recognize what the problems were if you asked me to. What bothers me more than the visual design is the interaction design ... am trying to find a way to move a sticky note which has been on my desktop for quite some time and the method I used previously no long works. Also some releases ago they mapped 'Alt-F' on the Konsole terminal app to a Find input box, whereas the binding is normally used on terminals for "move cursor forward by a word". This is not a sane default and has caused me to pick Wezterm as my preferred terminal app.

codr7 1y ago

Likewise, none of that bothers me as much as Apple's design over function madness lately.

bundie 1y ago

I dunno how to explain it, but to me, Plasma looks "bad" in a "good," or should I say "consistent," way. Like, it looks "bad," but it's honestly not that bad.

graemep 1y ago

I do not care much. I do use third party themes but I suspect they have the same problems. I just have some colour preferences and like pretty icons. I prefer to have third party apps icons overridden by the icon theme, but then I can just use another icon theme.

orev 1y ago

It’s very easy to become blind to UX issues even after just a few exposures to it. Once you “figure it out”, it’s not a problem anymore. The thing is that you can easily lose many potential users who don’t want to give any time at all to “figuring it out”.

mih 1y ago

I am one such user. KDE Plasma has been my daily driver ever since the early days of version 5. Admittedly am not someone with a keen eye for design. There might be some rough edges and the occasional annoyance, but you quickly get used to it. The desktop/windowing system for me is just a means to launch an application which is where I spend most of my time. This often happens to be a browser, a terminal and IDE etc. The design of such apps takes more precedence for me than some margin of the control center items where I couldn't recognize what the problems were if you asked me to. What bothers me more than the visual design is the interaction design ... am trying to find a way to move a sticky note which has been on my desktop for quite some time and the method I used previously no long works. Also some releases ago they mapped 'Alt-F' on the Konsole terminal app to a Find input box, whereas the binding is normally used on terminals for "move cursor forward by a word". This is not a sane default and has caused me to pick Wezterm as my preferred terminal app.