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    [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

    I'd be fine with it, but I had to pin the flatpak to an old release for now, because the redesign fucked up the migration, deleted all my presets and also caused issues with voice chat apps not getting any audio input. The new UI is also unquestionably a downgrade and less accessible when it comes to setting slider values, but I hope that can be fixed with time. I certainly don't blame FOSS devs for their work.

    Btw. seeing some of the comments in here: is it the fate of all Linux shitposting forums to be filled with hardliners who really care what software you install on you Linux system? Let me use my GTK apps in peace. I don't need opinions on UI cleanliness and density from people who don't even use easyeffects, because my god, is it a mess currently.

    [–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    gnome style is too rounded for me hurts my eyes when i see it

    [–] Hubi@feddit.org 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    I dislike GTK because it looks clunky and dated to me. I need glassy blur effects on all windows.

    [–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    same except the last part, I need more win95 looking apps

    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Best blur is no blur. Except this Blur.

    [–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    Surely this Blur makes the cut, too!

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    at least kde has some ui density, gtk5/6 is atrocious on lowres displays

    [–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

    oh bruh i ment gtk4/5 haha sry

    I had 768p monitor, gnome title bars ate my screen space, I had to unironicly set my scale factor to 70% on gnome tweaks to even attempt to try out gnome and even then I gave up and installed plasma

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    i just can't stand gnome anymore, it was my favorite for a long time too. KDE is fine, I'm into Cosmic right now but I'm not sure I like the file manager

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    That's crazy Dolphin is the best file manager on Linux. Nemo is second and the rest is unusable trash lacking so many features.

    [–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

    Last time I used Nemo it was an unstable mess, but that was a while ago. I'm sure it's been improved.

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Interesting, dolphin is by far my favorite file manager? What don't you like about it?

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    I'd have to use it again to tell you, to be honest. It's been couple months since I last did and so my memory is a little foggy except for my dislike. I remember not liking how tabs work and how it took a bunch of tinkering to make it less annoying.

    on a machine that I ran for years, i basically did kde but with a different file manager, that was wonky and presented it's own problems but it wasn't Dolphin so I was satisfied

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    on a machine that I ran for years, i basically did kde but with a different file manager

    Might've been PCManFM-Qt, which is also used by LXQt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMan_File_Manager
    At least, that's another Qt file manager I know of.

    Well, or it was Krusader: https://krusader.org/
    But Krusader is funky, i.e. similar to Total Commander and GNU Midnight Commander...

    [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Krusader (or generally dual-pane file managers) is great once you get used to it. I have been using it (and Double Commander on Windows) for years now and wouldn't want to get back to anything else.

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 minutes ago

    Yeah, I often hear that. A few years ago, I tried to get into Krusader, because I also liked some of the features it has, but after two weeks or so, I realized that I don't use the file manager nearly often enough to make progress in learning a different workflow. πŸ˜…

    Well, and I also kind of had the problem that navigating into directories is quite fast on the terminal, especially with Fish shell, so I often do that there and then run open . to launch the GUI file manager for the thumbnails or dragging into other GUI applications.
    And that Frankenstein workflow is kind of diametrically opposed to dual-pane file managers, where you really need to navigate to different locations in the respective pane from within the file manager. 🫠

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

    There's also Konqueror, the file manager/web browser combo that was mostly replaced by dolphin but is still sort of maintained

    [–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago

    I prefer kiki but toy know, whatever...

    see

    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

    It actually hurt me a little how they made a perfectly wellade GTK app into a QT mess for no reason whatsoever. But oh well, I don't maintain it and it's not my place to complain much about it Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

    Like it still remains usable

    [–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    You can read about the reasoning here.

    Basically using GTK alone became a lot of unenjoyable work for them because they didn't want to depend on libadwaita and since its something they do for free in their free time it has to be fun.

    [–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

    having targetted both Qt api and the new Libadwaita api, this is going to happen more and more. the new GTK APIs are a pain in the ass and it's pretty clear they only target GNOME, and since GNOME 4, there's been no guarantee of API backwards compatiblity. it's a nightmare.

    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    I mean it works for countless other applications in the Gnome ecosystem, but as you said. If it isn't fun for them it's absolutely their right to switch

    [–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 hours ago

    Yes, for the Gnome ecosystem.

    [–] GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

    Oh wow, looks at this nuanced opinion and awareness of taste /s

    [–] milk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 hours ago

    An app that also looked really good and fit into the rest of my ecosystem of Gtk apps

    [–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Not sure I follow. Which app?

    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

    Easy effects. It adds effects to your audio, allowing you to fix audio balance, pump up the basses, and take 50% of your CPU because you put too much effects

    I use it btw

    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    I really don't like the KDE redisign of EasyEffects

    see post

    [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago

    @julia@eepy.moe