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  • Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs

    From Lumni1968@VERT to Nightfox on Sunday, March 08, 2026 16:29:49
    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: Nightfox to Dr. What on Thu Feb 05 2026 01:37 pm

    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: Dr. What to poindexter FORTRAN > Thu Feb 05 2026 06:55 am

    There's a new term now: "Getti > DW> Gnomed".

    It's when you install one
    application but it "needs" near > DW> all the Gnome environment loade > DW> to run, whether you use Gnome o > DW> not.

    Yeah, I've noticed some Linux distro > have packages for Gnome support libraries. There are also KDE suppor > libraries as well.

    And for UI themes, I've noticed that > even if you aren't using Gnome, some > the installed applications might be
    using GTK (the Gnome toolkit); there > are a lot of GTK UI themes that will > get applied to those GTK application > but naturally, applications not usin > GTK won't get that theme. So you'll > have apps with one UI theme and othe > apps with a different UI theme.

    Years ago, I used to like Gnome 2, a > when running in Gnome, all applicati > would look consistent with the same
    theme. But that doesn't seem to be > case anymore with other desktop environments.

    One thing I've noticed is that KDE
    Plasma uses Qt, which is a
    cross-platform GUI framework that I' > heard is considered one of the best > most popular (and wxWidgets being
    another one). Qt is available for
    Windows too, so theoretically, a
    program written using the Qt GUI
    framework (probably especially with
    C++) would probably be able to be bu > and run for both Linux and Windows w > few modifications. I've done some C > development using wxWidgets and that > was one of the advantages of wxWidge > as well.

    Nightfox
    I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. I use
    Slackware and Gnome seems to be a lot
    slower.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Lumni1968 on Sunday, March 08, 2026 17:18:48
    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: Lumni1968 to Nightfox on Sun Mar 08 2026 04:29 pm

    I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. I use
    Slackware and Gnome seems to be a lot
    slower.

    I like XFCE, though if you have a high-resolution monitor (maybe 1440p or 4K), it seems XFCE's scaling isn't the greatest. I don't think it offers fractional scaling (you could do 2x scaling with it, but then everything could look too big). I gave XFCE a try on my main PC, but I found that Cinnamon looked better, and I think KDE Plasma looks even better. Also, it seems KDE Plasma is able to scale some applications that still looked small & hard to read in Cinnamon, such as Zoom (for online video meetings). At least, it seems that way in my experience.

    Nightfox

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  • From Lumni1968@VERT to Nightfox on Monday, March 09, 2026 03:36:44
    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: Nightfox to Lumni1968 on Sun Mar 08 2026 05:18 pm

    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: Lumni1968 to Nightfox on Sun M > 08 2026 04:29 pm

    I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. > Lu> use
    Slackware and Gnome seems to be > Lu> lot
    slower.

    I like XFCE, though if you have a
    high-resolution monitor (maybe 1440p > 4K), it seems XFCE's scaling isn't t > greatest. I don't think it offers
    fractional scaling (you could do 2x
    scaling with it, but then everything > could look too big). I gave XFCE a > on my main PC, but I found that
    Cinnamon looked better, and I think > Plasma looks even better. Also, it seems KDE Plasma is able to scale so > applications that still looked small > hard to read in Cinnamon, such as Zo > (for online video meetings). At lea > it seems that way in my experience.

    Nightfox
    I keep mine at 2560x1080. It works
    pretty well. I used to use KDE4, but Iwanted something that ran faster (I'm still using an I920 at 2.67Ghz and 16GBof ram).

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Lumni1968 on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 13:45:27
    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: Lumni1968 to Nightfox on Sun Mar 08 2026 04:29 pm

    I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. I use Slackware and Gnome seems to be a lot slower.

    if you ever want super light, try something like openbox.

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  • From Lumni1968@VERT to phigan on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 11:50:40
    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: phigan to Lumni1968 on Tue Mar 10 2026 01:45 pm

    Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
    By: Lumni1968 to Nightfox on Sun M > 08 2026 04:29 pm

    I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. > > use Slackware and Gnome seems to > > a lot slower.

    if you ever want super light, try
    something like openbox.
    I might have to check that out.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Lumni1968 on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 15:15:11
    Lumni1968 wrote to phigan <=-

    I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. > > use Slackware and Gnome seems to

    > a lot slower.

    if you ever want super light, try
    something like openbox.

    I might have to check that out.

    I estimate it will take you about.... 12 seconds to decide that it's
    *WAY* too light.




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