Re:Revisiting KDE
by kitsunesoba on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:57PM
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As much as I want to like KDE and agree with some of its principles (such as its all-too-uncommon lack of fear of proper menubars) I have a hard time using it long term because even after years of effort going into polishing it, it still has that distinct “designed by programmers” feel to it with awkward UI layout and whitespace distribution and quirky idiosyncrasies smattered throughout. I get why it has ardent fans but I don’t think it’s for everybody.
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Are there any FOSS desktop environments that executes better in those areas?
Re:Revisiting KDE
by kitsunesoba on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:34PM
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Just about anything GTK-based. GNOME takes minimalism too far but is undeniably polished, but Cinnamon and XFCE get much closer to a balance between good UI/UX and configurability.
Cinnamon works for me.
KDE was buggy, unreliable and annoying when I tried it--admittedly some time ago. And the fetish for naming everything with an initial letter K: kindergarten stuff.
Too much effort on making every last thing customisable and not enough on making it work?
On the calendar front, Kalendar [1] has picked up KOrganizer's tab and is doing a great job at it:
I'm not a design expert, but KDE looks absolutely fine to me. Maybe because I'm a programmer and it was designed by people like me for me.