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Re:KDE Plasma 5.22 by fasdf23423 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:14AM (#27434714)
This DE is just incredible, I think we wouldn't have any advances in other - even comercial - desktop environments if it wasn't for the feeling

"oh, our not-KDE desktop environment can't do AT ALL what KDE does uneventfully, we need to catch up with these guys"

Re:KDE Plasma 5.22 by pxc on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:40AM (#27435055)
I'm not so sure that developers of other desktop environments are highly attentive to Plasma's features and look.

But I do agree that it tends to see key features implemented well ahead of its biggest competitors. It also has really good built-ins, and imo something that doesn't get emphasized enough when discussing its configurability is how _usable_ its configuration interfaces are. Plasma has a much better story for configuring global keyboard shortcuts than macOS does, for example. I generally find the KDE conventions for organizing configuration options impressively orderly and discoverable, especially given how much functionality they expose.