Originally posted by leipero
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And that's still much better than your walls of text or Griffin's faith.
Why should KDE be more popular in Germany compared to other places, well,
On DE stuff, here is the thing, you need to be clear to what consist of DE, when i say GNOME-based, since all GNOME Project DE's and applications use GTK+ toolkit, it's practically a synonimus, and most (if not all) applications in Cinnamon/MATE have GNOME root, for example, text editors, xed is actually gedit changed to suit Cinnamon DE, pluma is old gedit from gnome2. now improved and transitioned to GTK3+ toolkit, nemo is based on earlier version of nautilus, caja also from gnome 2, ofc. all of that software is forked and changed, in some cases drastically enough, but still they share quite a bit of underlaying code. XFCE is exception here (ofc. KDE also, since it isn't GNOME-based or using GTK toolkit), since it uses GTK toolkit but it is developed from scratch (to my knowledge, I could be wrong).
Cinnamon's or MATE's or XFCE's or KDE's filemanagers don't look like GNOME 3's, their default user interface looks more similar to Win7/XP while GNOME 3 is a thing of its own.
And so on.
You are clearly speaking about layout,
They are all set with the traditional Desktop PC user interface paradigms, small icons, menus, many options.
While GNOME 3 is clearly following touch user interface paradigms in many places, large icons, not much options, minimalist, cool icon theme, actively fights against any attempt to use more than a single application at a time (does not show windows until I go in a corner or press hotkeys, does hide an application if I click on another, and so on).
I'm not saying it's wrong, just that it's painfully obvious that it's very different from other DEs (Cinnamon and MATE were born because of this obvious difference after all).
I don't know, probably most GNOME users use extensions, but yet again, no other DE offers such feature, so we can't really compare it.
KDE (Plasma) has extensions too (plasmoids), so does Cinnamon (obviously, it's similar to GNOME 3) and MATE. Sure MATE does not have a lot http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/plugins but the functinality is there and most of those actually make sense.
XFCE also has panel plugins.
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