Plasma 6.5
53 points by FedericoSchonborn
53 points by FedericoSchonborn
improvements look pretty good, HDR improvements, emoji selector (not joking), finally usable wifi menu, mute button. Looks awesome
Honestly, plasma is my go to, however it does not look appealing, maybe that's the point, keep it usable and good enough. Does anyone know if there are any designers involved in Plasma work?
PS. I get it, that it's much easier to make an awful design than improve what we have. I loo kat you liquid **ass
By designers, you mean people who "make it pretty"? Or more like UX/UI designers who make it usable. Because to me the latter is appealing to me and frankly where KDE does much better than GNOME in many areas. With GNOME I often get the impression that looks go before function.
yeah, mostly prettier, maybe more usable, I am not a UX/UI guy myself so it's hard to give a particular example. And I prefer KDE over GNOME every time, but I wish it was like apple in early days, cannot think of a better synonym.
plasma made a massive leap from where linux desktops were, so hopefully it will be even better in 5 years
however it does not look appealing
I've seen a lot of people mention this recently, weird.
It's all a matter of taste, I've always liked how Plasma looks (although the first iterations of Breeze were... not great).
Does anyone know if there are any designers involved in Plasma work?
Yes, there's the KDE Visual Design Group (VDG), you can get involved if you wish.
It's all a matter of taste, I've always liked how Plasma looks
It is indeed. IMHO it's got steadily worse, KDE 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4... then 5 went flat, and whereas I hate flat design, it did reduce the fugly a bit.
Red Hat's old Bluecurve theme was for me the best KDE ever looked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageunix/comments/1ebrek0/kde_on_red_hat_linux_80/
Neither RH nor Fedora use it any more. The source must be out there somewhere. I'd love to see that come back as an option.
This is not it, but the comments may be a starting point.
however it does not look appealing
That is a very vague criticism. What's wrong with it? I like it exactly the way it is. The last thing I'd want is more glass and other 'fashionable' designs that reduce performance, usability and accessibility.
Andy Betts gave a talk at Akademy about the design system. https://conf.kde.org/event/9/contributions/261/ He also blogs: https://anditosan.wordpress.com/
Man, I love not just the polish but the pace of iteration and the focus on usability out of KDE these days. Mad props
when the system is muted, changing the volume in any way now un-mutes all playback devices.
Hmm, this sounds troubling. It's important to me that after I panic mute something deafeningly loud, I can lower the volume to a safe level before unmuting. ChromeOS, for example, unmutes on volume up but not volume down.
AFAICS it doesn't have the #1 thing I've been asking for...
A global option to disable CSD and hamburger menus. It is a desktop UI style I despise with a burning hatred. But half the KDE Gear collection uses it now.
If this supposedly customisable desktop doesn't let me turn it off, it is not even in the running, I'm afraid.
Real options that change behaviour are more important than rounded window corners.
It can be done. E.g. run the standard unmodified Google Chrome for Linux binary on the Unity desktop, and suddenly it has a fully-populated menu bar with all the options you'd expect in the right places, and accessible from the keyboard.
If Unity can do it on a sealed binary, 8 years after Unity development stopped, then I don't see why KDE cannot.