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KDE wins (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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GNOME: "clean and simple", "most popular de", "stable", "best online accounts integration", "familiar and simple names for applications", a picture of a Characters list on a r34 type imageboard saying that there are 12 entries for "wilber (gimp)"; VS; KDE: another such image saying that theres 100 "kiki the cyber squirrel" entries and 107 "konqi" entries; CONCLUSION KDE WINS; a few (SFW) images of the characters, from the site
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[–] 66 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Did the Gnome people ever figure out how to put icons on the desktop yet?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Icons on the desktop is a non-feature for most gnome users. Even my Windows desktop has been empty since XP released. If you really want desktop icons then using an extension for that should be fine, but it's silly to frame this as a failing of the "Gnome people" just because Gnome doesn't replicate the classic Windows desktop experience.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I have icons on my desktop, icons in my taskbar, and of course the menu. taskbar, always there, one click, boom! second tier apps, desktop, less used stuff, open menu.

    I use KDE BTW

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Whatever floats your boat. I'm using my keyboard probably 90% of the time and hitting super and typing in one to three letters followed by enter is the fastest way for me to navigate to pretty much anything including system settings and documents. Finding stuff on a desktop with more than a dozen icons is annoying to me. I move windows and switch focus with the standard keyboard shortcuts etc. It's a familiar workflow for tiling WM users and works that way out of the box, yet Gnome has been catching shit for it since v3. It used to be the disgruntled Gnome 2 userbase but nowadays it seems to be mostly people who don't use Gnome at all lol.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Then why have a desktop? Why not just an app drawer or always ready terminal?

    Seems like the worst of both worlds in terms of utilitarianism and aesthetics.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    For all intents and purposes I don't have a desktop. It's just a wallpaper and canvas for the actual workflow. The app drawer is one keypress away, as is the terminal (and I prefer to have separate sessions for different tasks anyway). I usually see my desktop for about five seconds after bootup per day so there's not much reason to put anything else there. Think of it like the wallpaper or black background of a tiling window manager. I really don't get how this is such a crazy idea to some people. I've subconsciously used the exact same workflow since before Gnome even implemented it, just without explicit support from my desktop environment.

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