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Re:Revisiting KDE by kitsunesoba on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:57PM (#34391973)
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.
Re:Revisiting KDE by cpach on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:27PM (#34392327)
Are there any FOSS desktop environments that executes better in those areas?
Re:Revisiting KDE by kitsunesoba on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:34PM (#34392423)
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.
Re:Revisiting KDE by mrbadger on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:53AM (#34398815)
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?

Re:Revisiting KDE by eliaspro on Sunday January 15, 2023 @03:10PM (#34392801)
On the calendar front, Kalendar [1] has picked up KOrganizer's tab and is doing a great job at it:

[1] https://apps.kde.org/kalendar/

Re:Revisiting KDE by kombine on Sunday January 15, 2023 @08:25PM (#34395679)
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.
Re:Revisiting KDE by javier2 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:12PM (#34418169)
Same for me. And I am even a programmer. I have settled on Gnome for the past ~five years.