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[–] TCB13 -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KDE would've been great if they had some sense of design and knew how to properly apply spacing and proportions across the DE. But in terms of pure usability they are orders of magnitude above the crap GNOME is pushing for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the current KDE Plasma looks just as good as many of the alternatives. It's certainly far from the jarring design mess that KDE was for decades, and for the first time in years I'm actually happy to use it.

[–] TCB13 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's not the greatest. I admit it could still benefit from more tidying up. But it no longer provokes the instant "Oh God no!" reaction that used to send me running for anything but KDE.

[–] TCB13 0 points 1 year ago

The ideal desktop would be something like... KDE's usability in terms of a bottom bar, notification area and menu + the design consistency of GNOME. I'm currently doing that with ArcMenu and Dash to Panel under GNOME but still get annoyed from time to time with a bunch of details.