KDE Plasma 6.3 Bringing A More Consistent Close Button, Other Last Minute Changes

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  • DMJC
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 594

    #21
    KDE isn't my cup of tea, but I have used it recently. It's a very capable desktop environment. The developers have done a great job on making it fully integrated and quite consistent. Something the GTK ecosystem needs to do. I think GTK is going to have problems for a long time until there's a concerted effort to split the environment into GTK4/GNOME/LibAdwaita and the apps that go with it. And GTK2 style applications written in GTK3 on MATE/Whatever else wants that style environment. The applications are also going to have to fork, or at least implement a compile or run-time switch between UI styles because MATE with a bunch of LibAdwaita apps feels really janky/weird. The Xapps initiative by Mint is the right idea.
    Last edited by DMJC; 11 January 2025, 06:52 PM.

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    • Hojita
      Junior Member
      • Nov 2021
      • 15

      #22
      I wonder if they know about the kickoff bug, navigation with the keys only works up and down but not to the sides.
      I searched in the bug database but can't find it.

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      • sophisticles
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2015
        • 2591

        #23
        Originally posted by Landway12 View Post
        After trying Ubuntu for a little while, I am surprised over how inferior it was to KDE.
        What?!?

        Ubuntu is a Linux based OS while KDE is a desktop environment.

        Your statement is nonsense.

        It's like saying after driving a Mustang for a while I was surprised at how inferior it was to the 5.0L V8.

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        • sophisticles
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2015
          • 2591

          #24
          Originally posted by bug77 View Post
          I get that you find it ridiculous that a desktop can be laid out more than one way. I just changed mine as described and it didn't crash. It wasn't a generic issue, it was affecting specific setups (i.e. Nate's, but he didn't include system config in the bug report) .
          No, I find it ridiculous that such a thing can happen in the first place.

          With some of these open sores projects it's like watching an episode The Three Stooges id they were computer programmers.

          Or Reno 911 with programmers instead of cops.

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          • archkde
            Senior Member
            • May 2019
            • 685

            #25
            Originally posted by Hojita View Post
            I wonder if they know about the kickoff bug, navigation with the keys only works up and down but not to the sides.
            I searched in the bug database but can't find it.
            You know you can enter bugs into the database?

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            • Nth_man
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2012
              • 1038

              #26
              Originally posted by bug77 View Post

              I just changed mine as described and it didn't crash. It wasn't a generic issue, it was affecting specific setups (i.e. Nate's, but he didn't include system config in the bug report) .
              I've just tried it (using Kubuntu 24.10) and everything worked finely, as in your case.

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              • openminded
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2022
                • 227

                #27
                >> System Settings' Night Light page has moved from the "Colors & Themes" group to the "Display & Monitor" group, which is a more natural and expected place for it.

                This is hilarious but at least they moved it back to where it belongs.

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                • mrg666
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2023
                  • 1084

                  #28
                  Originally posted by Nth_man View Post

                  I've just tried it (using Kubuntu 24.10) and everything worked finely, as in your case.
                  I have seen no Plasma crashes in a long time either.

                  There has been so many KDE news on this site lately and all of them attracted a lot of comments. Not all comments were highly useful and intelligent (maybe just like I do now), but it shows how an active project is KDE and how much people are paying attention. Plasma has become so consistent, clean, and complete in the UI design. I am thinking Plasma will become the default DE in majority of distributions in the near future.

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                  • skeevy420
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2017
                    • 8652

                    #29
                    Originally posted by mrg666 View Post

                    I have seen no Plasma crashes in a long time either.

                    There has been so many KDE news on this site lately and all of them attracted a lot of comments. Not all comments were highly useful and intelligent (maybe just like I do now), but it shows how an active project is KDE and how much people are paying attention. Plasma has become so consistent, clean, and complete in the UI design. I am thinking Plasma will become the default DE in majority of distributions in the near future.
                    Moreover, when you ignore the actual desktop and focus on the programs used and offered by the projects, GNOME programs aren't good. They're very bare bones, full of wasted space, and GNOME programs will willy-nilly swap the Accept, Cancel, OK, and Close buttons at random. GTK really went downhill when it transitioned from GIMP Tool Kit into GNOME Tool Kit with all that dumbass Human Interface Design Adwaita Padding everywhere with inconsistent function button locations.

                    ""Let's put the main menu next to the close button."
                    --Some GNOME Developer"
                    --Skeevy420

                    GNOME 1 made me a Linux user.
                    GNOME 3 made me an XFCE user.
                    GTK 3 made me a KDE and Qt user.

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                    • bug77
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 6517

                      #30
                      Originally posted by Nth_man View Post

                      I've just tried it (using Kubuntu 24.10) and everything worked finely, as in your case.
                      Out of curiosity, I'm on Nvidia. You?

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