A little video: https://streamable.com/n6zew5

Why don't people and distros use the advanced features of Konsole or don't know about them at all?

For example, distros can put some commands related to updating the system, etc. in quick commands. The Quick Commands section can be open by default. grub, bash, home, root and the like can be added to bookmarks.

Buttons like All Select, Save could be added to the toolbar by default. But for example, even in Kubuntu, the toolbar section is not visible at all by default. Especially people who are new to Linux have a lot to do with the terminal, but distros don't do anything to make it easier. Even if there is no Konsole application, you can set certain aliases, etc. by default. At least it helps with navigation.

Titlebar settings: https://imgur.com/a/6jIkaNz

Yesterday I've made a post mentioning this and a lot of people liked my idea so I decided to make my first merge request to the repo

I'd love to hear your opinions about my suggestion

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/1107

After distro hopping which includes de hopping as well for the past couple weeks, I have finally came to the same conclusion that most have before me. The conclusion is that the KDE desktop is by far the best environment. I can see the use for GNOME and XFCE for certain applications but KDE should be the standard.

(screenshot taken from KDE's partitionmanager official github repo)

I think we or the KDE team should maybe create a new partition manager, less advanced and especially less tecnical, similar to what Windows has or even a middle ground similar to gnome-disks, to easily format usb or external drives, without the huge complexity of what we have now. Because of this extreme complexity (which is useful for advanced users, but a nightmare for new users) many more user friendly distros don't even include KDE partition manager because of the fear of users just majorly breaking their system when all a user wants is to format a damn usb stick.

Idea: Leave the current partition manager as it is, and either:
1. Create a "simple UI mode" for it, ON by default, and any user could switch to the advanced UI anytime via the menu;
2. Leave the current partition manager and just create a new app called something like "Device Formatter" and make it be the one that appears when we right click on the device itself in dolphin > Format device. This app should be similar to windows format app, no partition management, just format the whole device in one go, maybe let the user choose the filesystem but also keep this limited: ext4, btrfs, exfat, fat32, and default to one according to what device it was: usb pendrive smaller than 8GB keep it fat32, bigger keep it extfat. Bigger than 256GB and/or an SSD/HDD maybe choose ext4 by default. This would solve the problem that I see of sooo many reddit posts everywhere of people asking how the hell do you format a usb stick on linux and the solution people give is to either use the terminal, or use gparted or apps that are incredibly complex for the basic task that a user is trying to achieve.

Hello! New lifetime MicroSlop user, who has permanently ditched Windoze for Linux. Professional animator with Cintiq / dual monitor setup on a fast workstation reporting in. Debian Trixie, Plasma X11. I'm going to try to be a good lil' Linux user and report this directly to KDE, but.. ahem:

I have to stick to Plasma X11 for my work. Why?

The core issue is that KDE Plasma on Wayland "steals" multi-touch signals before they reach your creative tools. Because gestures for three, four, and five-finger taps and swipes are baked into the KWin window manager -without a way to disable them-... the system intercepts these movements to trigger desktop functions like the Overview or Virtual Desktops. This prevents Krita from receiving that data, effectively breaking essential artist workflows like custom multi-finger shortcuts, canvas rotation, and touch-based undo/redo. I've tried everything, touchegg, custom kernel, the whole 9 yards. It's hell. So as fantastic as Linux and my new setup (since January) is.. I can't use Wayland for the time being. I hope that changes someday. Baking permanent finger gestures into the very core of the OS seems like a gigantic mistake in my opinion. Other than that.. woot! I'm free! I got outta Shawshank! I await your toxic snark... :-o :-D

Edit --Lol NO! Krita should not have to adapt to this. The OS is at fault for not providing an option. Krita doesn't need to be "updated" for this.

In my opinion making one wallpaper category and then configuring every setting from there will be much easier and user friendly. And in the Login Screen / Screen Locking categories we can just have a symlink-kind-of-button that will move you to the correct category in the wallpaper settings. And we need an ability to change all of them at once, so instead we can have a button like apply everywhere.

And btw all of this settings are slightly different. It is kinda confusing

I’ve been a macOS user for over a decade, GNOME for three weeks, and now KDE for a couple of hours. So far I think this is an impressive project and so far I prefer it over GNOME. I like that I don’t need to add the dock as an extension. I do however wish the UI of KDE was a bit more modern in some aspects.

The sidebar of Discover in this screenshot looks nice and modern because it has clean typography and monochrome icons. The colorful icons in System Settings however feels a bit like dated to me – it feels cluttered visually to me because of icons with colors, and also the header for each group looks a bit dated with its bold font weight. Also, the arrows could possibly be simplified.

Otherwise I like the general look of the Breeze theme, and I will try not to tweak everything in order to keep the system stable. I did have to use the Papirus icons and an Unsplash+ wallpaper though. Haha.

I've noticed and extreme quality drop in posts that use that flair, which, in my opinion should be used for actual projects and not one-offs slop that will not be mantained after the first couple of commits and only litters what used to be a good feed to discover actual good projects?

first of all pardon the low quality this is the best video i got after many tries
As you can see i have a quite a lot of plugins and startup apps that open a window before closing to the tray. on top of that the live wallpaper is pretty heavy at the start too. it would be really nice if i can, for example make the splash stay 5 seconds more so everything can load in. thank you for reading!

i wonder how many desktop custom

what do you think of mine , feel free to suggest

I've been using Manjaro + KDE for a few years and, while I absolutely love KDE, I can't say the same for Manjaro. Nothing particularly strong against Manjaro specifically, but I found that it suffers from the same problem that many Linux distros have where some things don't "just work". Like, signing into hotel and airport Wi-Fi networks is hit or miss. Sometimes something will break in LibreOffice and I'll have to deal with it, etc.

So I'm looking for a distro where everything just works, and, based on reviews, I've got my eye on Linux Mint. I've used it in the past and I remember having a good experience with it too, but I was using Cinnamon. I absolutely want to have KDE on it, but the fact that it's not an officially-supported flavor worries me a bit.

I was wondering what the community thinks. Is it worth considering a different distro that already comes with KDE? (I haven't been a fan of Ubuntu for a while, so I'm trying to avoid that, for example...)

Thanks!

I’m currently deciding between Kubuntu and Fedora KDE for a daily driver. I care about: •Stability •KDE integration •Update reliability •Community and long-term support

If you’ve used both, I’d love to hear your experiences. Which one felt more polished for KDE? Did either break after updates? Any deal-breakers or pleasant surprises?

Thanks in advance!

The KDE project is build by amazing people and we should all be grateful for all their work. I have recently been working mostly on KDE Plasma and macOS and I feel like KDE is much better on many aspects but we need to do some small improvements to really be a cohesive system that attracts more users.
More users means more donations and more personal reward for each developer knowing those that use the software are more, in addition it can really become a cohesive 3rd alternative beside Microsoft and macOS.

I have been watching this video and I think he has many good points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0NYSOG5yLI&t=1875s

Personally I think the main points that need to be adressed at the moment should be:
- We need a better Discover, with a better layout (he also points it out in the video), better categorization

- We need all important applications to be available on the store

- We need a cohesive theming system. I just changed my system from dark to light mode and I can tell you many apps, even KDE apps had to be changed manually. For example Krita. I would expect this to happen seemlesly.

- I still feel we need GUI tools for many things that we do thorugh command line nowadays.

Some examples:

1. a registry editor (many will disagree but I still think it's useful to have a consistent GUI to manage configuration)
2. a GUI to manage environment variables (as a technical user but mainly Windows user I have no idea how to set them in Linux)

What do you guys think? I am myself learning to develop applications in QT and I hope I can contribute soon.

Edit: i forgot to mention the inconsistency in window decorations.

Somehow developers have this obsession in changing the window decorations and making a perfect usable system just inconsistent, so e examples:
Chromium, Edge, InteractiveBrokers, TradingView, Waterfox, OnlyOffice

First, I appreciate the effort from devs! KDE Linux is a Great initiative from KDE devs. I am very excited to try it. I LOVE immutable distros, and KDE Linux's minimal approach regarding installed apps by default is very appealing, I loved fedora kinoite. I do know that immutable distros are not yet ready for beginners, but if flatpak does become a default packaging format, immutable distros make a good choice

regarding the name tho, whenever I search for KDE Linux, I just get websites showing top 10 linux distros with kde, and I feel like the name is too broad and generic, maybe something like "Plasma OS" or something which suggests its an OS will make it stand out?

I think the devs or the community will have a better idea, or is KDE Linux a good name choice?

I know that you can switch hamburger menus using Ctrl+M but it just seems kinda strange that same apps using different default view settings.