Am Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 12:19:21PM +0200 schrieb René J.V. Bertin: > >Generally, I approve of new and improved systems, but I have some > > I hear you, but have some doubts about the meaning of the concept > "improved" where the GUI is concerned. The Plasma5 desktop seems to be > following the current fashion of levelling down the interface to mobile > device design and interaction principles and that doesn't incite me at all > to keep following updates... I also noticed little details about that. Like over-scrolling panels when using a stone-age mouse wheel. Yesterday I came across an old Blog post of Nate’s from a year ago, and I was flabbergasted by how much Windows 11 looks like KDE from then: https://pointieststick.com/2020/10/02/this-week-in-kde-breeze-evolution-work-starts-landing/ OTOH, I do have a tablet (a Surface Go) on which I installed my standard Arch-with-KDE. And there I appreciate the fact that touch support is being worked on – even on X11. But in comparison to Windows – we do have a choice! You don’t like a menu with big tiles? Just switch the style and revert to a text-style cascading menu. It ships out of the box. Hooray! > I came to KDE in its late Plasma4 days after observing it seemed to be > headed to become a worthy replacement for Mac OS X (then still called like > that) for me. My current system has (self-built) KF5 apps running under > that same Plasma4 desktop but it seems I'm going to have to keep looking > what to replace that with when holding out on a Kubuntu 14.04 foundation > becomes untenable. While KDE4 was running well in later stages, I actually prefer the aesthetics of KDE5. The gradients and borders and so on were too thick and took up too much space. I know – fashions and tastes come and go – but I think the current design *is* more efficient when it comes to screen pixels. Breeze notwithstanding, which is why I stick to QtCurve and Oxygen icons which I’ve been using since early KDE4 days (QtCurve maybe even in KDE3?). -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ War does not determine who is right -- only who is left.
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