• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 hours ago

    Quick, someone make a mascot for KATE!

    Also KDE supports window decorations under Wayland, and also a lot better IMHO.

  • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
    122·
    7 hours ago

    Are we sure that Gnome is the most popular? I would’ve expected KDE to be the most popular one, even not considering the mascots.

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Gnome is the most popular DE for Fedora. Though KDE is popular enough to finally get Fedora to place it equally alongside their Gnome ISO. But I would bet Gnome has at least a slim lead ahead of all DEs.

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 hours ago

      Jesus it was pissing me off since 2017. I left Gnome in favor of KDE in 2019 You’re telling me you still can’t make a shortcut like a human being???

    • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
      111·
      10 hours ago

      Icons on the desktop is a non-feature for most gnome users. Even my Windows desktop has been empty since XP released. If you really want desktop icons then using an extension for that should be fine, but it’s silly to frame this as a failing of the “Gnome people” just because Gnome doesn’t replicate the classic Windows desktop experience.

      • Lumisal@lemmy.world
        51·
        5 hours ago

        Then why have a desktop? Why not just an app drawer or always ready terminal?

        Seems like the worst of both worlds in terms of utilitarianism and aesthetics.

        • matlag@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          3 hours ago

          That’s the beauty of KDE: you can make it pretty much anything you like and customize it: desktop icons or not, using the app menu or krunner, a mix of all, etc.

        • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 hours ago

          For all intents and purposes I don’t have a desktop. It’s just a wallpaper and canvas for the actual workflow. The app drawer is one keypress away, as is the terminal (and I prefer to have separate sessions for different tasks anyway). I usually see my desktop for about five seconds after bootup per day so there’s not much reason to put anything else there. Think of it like the wallpaper or black background of a tiling window manager. I really don’t get how this is such a crazy idea to some people. I’ve subconsciously used the exact same workflow since before Gnome even implemented it, just without explicit support from my desktop environment.

      • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 hours ago

        Icons on the desktop is a non-feature for most gnome users

        Yeah because everyone who uses them is on KDE now.

        • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
          4·
          6 hours ago

          Probably, yeah? I mean I’d hope they’re not still using Gnome if desktop icons are their one wish in life…

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        9 hours ago

        I have icons on my desktop, icons in my taskbar, and of course the menu. taskbar, always there, one click, boom! second tier apps, desktop, less used stuff, open menu.

        I use KDE BTW

        • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
          5·
          7 hours ago

          Whatever floats your boat. I’m using my keyboard probably 90% of the time and hitting super and typing in one to three letters followed by enter is the fastest way for me to navigate to pretty much anything including system settings and documents. Finding stuff on a desktop with more than a dozen icons is annoying to me. I move windows and switch focus with the standard keyboard shortcuts etc. It’s a familiar workflow for tiling WM users and works that way out of the box, yet Gnome has been catching shit for it since v3. It used to be the disgruntled Gnome 2 userbase but nowadays it seems to be mostly people who don’t use Gnome at all lol.

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      54·
      17 hours ago

      There’s an extension that lets you do that. Once a week it breaks and makes icons appear over other windows.

    • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      I really wish they replaced KIO with something new or make it actually mount network shares similar to gvfs, this is ridiculous it’s still like that after all those years

      • kshade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        It’s one of the main reasons I decided not to use KDE for Linux trials at my workplace. KDE applications can use KIO with network shares and it’s actually pretty great, but I/we can’t stay strictly within the KDE ecosystem. GVFS is great because it provides a fallback, even for the terminal. KIO used to be able to do this too, through a GVFS compatibility layer, but development on that feature stopped.

        So we’re doing Cinnamon, all the Windows-like familiarity of KDE and some of the stuff from Gnome/GTK that are just better there. Hope they can reach their Wayland goals this year though, no fraction scaling is pretty bad for some laptops. On the other hand, those displays shouldn’t exist in the first place…

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        7 hours ago

        If this is the same issue as what Elijah experienced on LTT’s most recent Linux Challenge video - the. I believe the KDE developers are (finally?) acting to fix this functionality.

        • kshade@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 hours ago

          I think what happened there is that the share is anonymously readable, but not writeable. So he could connect to smb://srv/share and it seemed to work, but what was actually needed is smb://user@srv/share - hard to diagnose the issue just from the video though.

    • Xylight‮@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Gnome seems to have amnesia whenever using sftp. disconnect once? say goodbye to ALL of your bookmarked network folders even after reconnecting.