A new wave of Linux applications

Re:A new wave of Linux applications by GekkePrutser on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:17PM (#30368793)

One thing I really hate about electron apps (besides performance in many cases) is the extreme branding they do. Every app looks differently, not fitting in with the rest of OS.

As a user, theming is a powerful feature to make things look somewhat consistent.

Though I use KDE and Qt apps as preference, and very few gnome apps. They tend to cope with this pretty well.

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Re:A new wave of Linux applications by curt15 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:59AM (#30371380)

As some who normally uses GNOME, I actually like apps to have distinct visual identities so that they are easy to tell apart at a glance. When using VSCode or Chromium I prefer their native title bars and modal dialogs, which integrate with the rest of their appearance, instead of the grey system-provided widgets.

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Re:A new wave of Linux applications by GekkePrutser on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:14PM (#30379391)

I can imagine.. But everything about GNOME rubs me the wrong way, so I find it hard to compare. The huuge title bars even when I don't have a touchscreen, everything hidden under a hamburger menu, the lack of configurability..

So for me the comparison against KDE is very different. KDE's tools have pretty sane defaults and can be customised very well.

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