I still think macosx has a higher degree of well-thought-out consistency. Just the ability to use readline/emacs keybindings throughout every textfield boosts productivity enormously. Yes, I'm sure you can enable this via kde/qt settings, but I'm fairly certain this conflicts with the PC-like keybindings, and there is no way to shift all qt/kde apps to use super as the primary command modifier throughout the entire environment.

That's just one detail, but it shows a consistent eye towards the user that feels missing from kde. It feels like they aimed for "floss version of windows usability" and stopped there.

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steve-atx-7600 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I can't understand why someone would use a desktop environment without readline/emacs (or equivalent - does not have to be the exact same key bindings) support if they have a choice and they know what those words mean. KDE had this around 2007 but in recent years it is missing.

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omgbear 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, having all the defaults for system keybinds be on super is really nice.

It feels like macosx lucked into this with their historical use of command as the modifier, but I also wish I could easily replicate. Instead I just go and remap a few line ctrl-a in KDE settings and otherwise try to live in emacs.

	▲	MangoToupe 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		"Lucked"? Is it not a choice to continue using PC keybindings? I would simply call this lack of attention to the user experience. Anyway, the first distro or desktop environment that figures out this problem will get a lifetime sponsorship from me. It's a huge productivity killer and remapping all apps, toolkits, etc, is untenable. Of note, Haiku os seems to have solved this issue permanently. It's a matter of will, really.