This week in KDE: all about those apps
This week in KDE: all about those apps
A few weeks ago, some of us discovered that KDE apps just looked terrible when run in GNOME. A lengthy discussion on icon theming ensued, with various improvements made on both sides. The KDE effor…
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One of my favorite blogs recently.
A few weeks ago, some of us discovered that KDE apps just looked terrible when run in GNOME.
They should test this much more often and frequently. Unlike Gnome, KDE do actually care about their users, not just about themselves.
Dolphin now gives you the option to enable previews for folders on remote locations.
I wouldn't use this for internet connections, but when accessing my Steam Deck through Dolphin on my PC, then this could be fast enough for smaller directories I guess. Meaning as long as the remote location is in the LAN and not the internet, the performance wouldn't be too bad I guess.
Discover now handles the case where one of your Flatpak apps has been marked as “end of life” and replaced with another one; it gives you the opportunity to switch to the new one, or cancel and keep using the old one anyway
Wow! This is a topic we discussed a lot in the web. Not for Flatpaks but often for native package managers like in Fedora or Archlinux, where no longer supported programs are still in the repository (such as neofetch). I still wish this check from Discovery app would be on the side of the package managers+repository information like Flatpak+Flathub itself, as I do this in commandline only. But very nice to see how KDE improves on this front.
BTW a personal little problem from me: My Application Launcher menu is very slow with bad performance. It always freezes for half a second goes loads when I move mouse and freezes again. Does anyone experience this issue?
12They should test this much more often and frequently. Unlike Gnome, KDE do actually care about their users, not just about themselves.
It's not like GNOME is the only outlier here (for the specific icon problem sure), someone on the linux subreddid also posted this screenshot https://imgur.com/a/1ELtsJb. It seems to really just be that KDE apps kinda struggle out side of KDE. And most of the GNOME devs do care about the users as well, just they also care that their apps look as intended.
8Try previews and smb in dolphin.... its horrible slow. With NFS instead of smb it's perfect
5I don't use SMB. It's SSH connection using Files transferred over Shell protocol (FISH).
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My Application Launcher menu is very slow with bad performance. It always freezes for half a second goes loads when I move mouse and freezes again. Does anyone experience this issue?
Assuming you're referring to KDE, I experienced this as well when I changed my default session from GNOME to KDE. There was something in my dotfiles that was affecting KDE's overall responsiveness, because the performance was perfectly fine when tested in a brand new profile. Ultimately, I resolved it by cleaning up my ~/.config and ~/.local folders.
1I didn't change from any desktop environment. But I think that I also use Gnome applications, not sure. cleaning .config or .local directory is not an option for me.
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Unlike Gnome, KDE do actually care about their users, not just about themselves.
It's hilarious how, despite KDE apps being broken on every DE that isn't plasma, people will still find a way to blame Gnome for it.
Contrarily to KDE, Gnome has managed to make sure that libadwaita apps look and work just like they're supposed to and how its shown on the screenshot in the app store. You might not like the theme, but at least you knew what to expect before downloading, whatever distro you are on.
It's great that KDE finally managed to fix their app so that they come with everything it need to function properly. People might be able to use them now on other DEs.
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This is so great! GNOME will finally be usable if it cannot break Dolphin and Kate anymore!
2And I can finally use octopi on gnome without it looking like someone beat the shit out of it!!!! Lol
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