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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by young_unixer on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:27PM (#25722289)
I find KDE to be pretty ugly.

For instance, margins and paddings seem to be all over the place [1]. At least Gnome gets that part right.

[1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by MegaDeKay on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:26PM (#25724008)
"This page assumes the status quo as of Plasma 5.7". Plasma is now on version 5.20 so the page you linked has some pretty old examples. The KDE folks are working pretty diligently to clean stuff like this up as they find it. Nate Graham's weekly blog documents this and other updates to the project.

https://pointieststick.com/

I personally like KDE and it's Breeze Dark theme a lot.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by j1elo on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:45AM (#25726737)
Small half-joke: Only two words into the front page post I already hit a UX issue! (and a UI inconsistency)

> This week (KWin’s compositing code was almost totally rewritten...)

I then instinctively went on to the top of the article to check on the date, to get an idea of when was "this week" for the author... but there is no date. Oh, well :-)

Opening the post itself (instead of reading from the main page) does indeed change the UI and it now happens to show the date.

Loved the irony...

This all shows that even for people dedicated to it, getting UI/UX right is hard.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by ognarb on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:32AM (#25727570)
Nate is not a web developer and is just using a default wordpress theme.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by j1elo on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:44AM (#25729425)
Totally understandable. The theme developer, however, could have strived for a bit more consistency on its default settings...
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by tylerjwilk00 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:36PM (#25723089)
Agreed. It occupies some weird uncanny valley of design that is hard to pin point.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by O_H_E on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:34PM (#25723064)
That page looks kinda out dated, and "contains some ideas how to improve the Plasma notification system". So a lot of that is mocks and not real screenshots.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by ognarb on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:33AM (#25727576)
Yes, this page is full of mockups created years ago.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by theshrike79 on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:53AM (#25727739)
KDE, to me, looks like someone designed it to be a touch interface.

Everything is so LARGE and padding between elements is YUGE. The tech is cool and everything seems to work fine, but something about the UI just grates me.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by shrimp_emoji on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:53AM (#25748498)
... Did you misspell GNOME here?

Also, KDE is the most customizable DE of them all, and it has the most powerful features of them all (by far). Given that, all these "but it looks kinda bad!" comments sound insane. It's like choosing a push mower over a motorized because you like the finish on the handle.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by solarkraft on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:40PM (#25723129)
Absolutely. It feels like they're getting there (VDG is working on it and shown some results), but they're just a few years away.

... it has been feeling like that for the few years I've been following it.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by heavyset_go on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:30PM (#25723033)
If you don't like the defaults, there are thousands of 3rd party themes that are directly listed and installable from KDE's theme preference pane.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by pseudalopex on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:41PM (#25724143)
Do any of them solve the problem?
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by gsich on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:26AM (#25725800)
No.
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