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KDE users: "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."
even fucking XFCE has out the box "easy" customisation
All of the old 2000s DEs were more customizable, including GNOME itself.
in their search for the 'perfect' desktop, i think the gnome design team went just a weeeee bit too far in dumbing-down the interface and elimination of 'clutter', and so many 'gnome' applications and utilities have like zero options and no menus, and literally no personality. they're basically unusable on anything that's supposed to be more than just a browser-launching chromebook replacement.
For me what ended up being an important difference is that Remote Desktop is a screen share in KDE (meaning it only works if you’re already logged on, everyone sees what you are doing and the remote view does not adapt to the monitor you’re connecting with). In Gnome it is a real private remote session with virtual monitors.
I am told something like NoMachine will solve this on KDE but I haven’t set that up yet.
The KDE team is also working on solving this, with their new login manager being a part of the puzzle, but it will take a while until it all works.
Is karousel on kde already as good as paperwm on gnome?
I have no idea what either of those are, lol.
they make it so that each new window you open pushes the current one to the "left" so you can navigate between windows right to left, like carousel views on websites
I've used karousel for months already. While I really like the paperwm-like flow, configuration is very fiddly and I would be hard-pressed to recommend it to other people. It simply needs better integration into plasma to make it worthwhile for most users.
Thx.