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      1 year ago

      For a keyboard and mouse yes.

      The ultimate desktop would be something like: KDE’s usability in terms of a bottom bar, notification area and menu (or ArcMenu and Dash to Panel under GNOME) + the design consistency of GNOME + optional desktop icons + window switching like Apple’s old Exposé or the current Windows Task View (Win+Tab).

      Windows got one thing (almost) right, fast and snappy multitasking and that’s about it. GNOME adds long animations and takes the focus from the applications to itself - it become the “center of user’s attention”. This isn’t good, a DE should be almost invisible, as minimalistic as it can be so the user can quickly switch between windows and get their job done specially on smaller screens. I guess most people run/enjoy GNOME never touched Apple’s old Exposé (macos Tiger and before?) or the current Windows Task View (Win+Tab) thus aren’t aware how far and how productive they can be on a very small screen with a simple way to move around.

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          Well, let’s be polite and say it’s not for everyone. TCB13 isn’t the only person to really love this DE 😛

          I don’t get the enthousiasm either, there is always to much information for me on the screen and inconsistent UI all over the place 🤷

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          Yes 😀 But at least they don’t outright refuse to have basic desktop functionality. GNOME has good UI while KDE has good UX.

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        @[email protected] and @[email protected] just to make my position clear, I hate KDE and all it’s design inconsistency but they actually got a better bottom bar / notifications area. GNOME designs things well but they kinda kill it all with their backwards approach and total refusal to have basic desktop functionality.

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          Really? I haven’t had any issues. What was wrong with the file explorer.

          That being said, my system is base Fedora plus a few extensions.

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              You were using a niche distro maintained by a single person and encountered problems? Shocking.

              To be fair, I used Nobara myself for a bit until I got tired of suffering from the problems GE was creating himself. But regardless, experience on something like Nobara is not a fair way to evaluate Gnome. Try it on actual Fedora or something else mainstream that isn’t constantly fuckering around with all kinds of shit and breaking stuff.

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              I’ll test this stuff out of curiosity later tonight!!

              It occurs to me now I never searched for anything through the explorer.

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        That delay can be removed with plugins so its instant but I agree - adding delays makes no sense to me either.

        And yeah I havent used windows or macs in a long time now.

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          The problem with plugins is what we can see with desktop icon extensions nowadays. GNOME removed their native desktop icons some time ago and all the subsequent extensions that popped up to get that functionality simply aren’t are good - you can’t drag and drop to some other places, there are weird things happening when you move icons and/or the selection box doesn’t make sense.