KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

Re:KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly... by haspok on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @07:14AM (#45578625)

Gnome UI sucks. It is ugly and non-customizable without plugins, or whatever you call that addon that enables you to put your clock on the right... I'm sure the UI makes more sense on a tablet or a phone with touch controls, but I just want to use it on my laptop with a regular monitor and with a mouse (or touchpad).

KDE has sane defaults and looks and feels like Windows UI from the best era. It just works.

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Re:KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly... by morshu9001 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @12:41PM (#45582109)

"It just works" is the important part. The style doesn't matter a whole lot if things aren't working right. Is this other guy's comment about GTK not a real problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581866

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Re:KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly... by haspok on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @01:04PM (#45582395)

I don't understand that comment. The K-suite of apps is just as comprehensive as the G-suite of apps - most people don't really care or notice anyway. No, I did not notice that Firefox uses GTK - seriously, who cares, and it is even shipped as a snap or flatpak. (I would even say that Qt is far more capable and developer friendly than GTK, so I'd pick Qt over GTK _any time_.)

There is one app that I installed recently, that used GTK and I noticed it - the ProtonVPN Connect UI, it looks a bit funny, but integrated seamlessly in the whole system (KDE) including the tray icon. It just works. What is the problem?

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