I still like the look and feel of GNOME a lot so I spent a little time putting it together that way. I want a simple desktop with small elements to maximize real estate for windows. I also use the small taskbar on my work computer for the same reason. But with my work computer, I do show window titles because I usually have at least 5 workbooks open at once so it’s nice to see which is which when I need to switch between them.
I love KDE’s application launcher. It feels very Windows XP with the way it sorts things. It just makes complete sense.
Century Gothic may not be the most readable font in the world, but I think it has an old school charm to it.
GNOME lost the plot when they abandoned the 2.x design philosophy.
It’s been a bumpy road. I have strong memories of Gnome devs explaining to users how wrong they were to dislike Nautilus’s awful spatial mode. And when that guy refused to implement a switch off option because users were wrong to ask for it.
Now really, it’s quite functional once you’ve tweaked with gnome-tools and added vital extensions. You also have to remember useless stuff such as “Video” means “Totem”. I’ll just never understand why they don’t really care about sane defaults.
except that extensions are second class citizens at best, on gnome. Some (or all, sometimes) of them will break after an update.
I totally agree.
Care to explain what that is?
Looks really good. Which Dock application is that?
Thanks! I’m using Latte for the dock and Tera Circle Blue for the icons.
Huh, I thought Latte dock had wrapped up with 6.
It’s Debian so I’m on 5.
On 6 you can have similar experience to Latte with just the panel minus the animations and some of its customizations
Ah, makes sense.
That looks amazing! Can you tell je how you did it? Everytime i start to tweak with the taskbar/dock/statusbar it comes out chonky and doesnt work. All i want i the same look as you have, but ive never come close!
Check your DMs
I tried gnome for a bit. I really liked the workflow. But the over simplification of the interface just killed me.
I got tired of it. And took the things I like from gnome and implemented them in plasma. (Swipe for virtual desktops for example)
Yeah, I feel like 9/10 vanilla is best. If the developers of the DE are good it should work clean out of the box.
I just switched from GNOME to Plasma in the past week, after a long time on gnome, and Plasma 6 is great. The only thing I miss so far is viewing all my windows on the desktop when I push the meta key - alt-tab seems clunky in comparison.
Any suggestions there?
Meta + w
I believe it’s called “overview” in shortcut section.
Amazing - Thanks for that!
Welcome to the club!
For me it feels more like Windows 7 instead.
How did you get those panel on bottom?
The dock is Latte. I run Debian so this is Plasma 5. As I understand it, Latte doesn’t work in Plasma 6.
Looks great!
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I’m not a KDE user, is it possible to have the upper bar all the way up without showing the wallpaper above?
Yes, in fact that’s the default for panels.
Ty
Lol, not sure why a “thank you” got downvoted
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I’d like to like KDE but every time I use it there’s a bunch of minor cuts. Instability.
Any chance you’ve replicated gnomes dynamic workspaces?
What dock are you using?
Latte. I run Debian so this is Plasma 5. As I understand it, Latte doesn’t work in Plasma 6.
seems like you have recreated cosmic de ^^
