I love KDE but they could take some notes from this!

cosmic_cheese 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah I appreciate their approach which optimizes for information density a lot more than competing desktops, but it could certainly feel cleaner while doing so.

I think mid-00s commercial OSes are a good target in this regard. OS X 10.2-10.9 and Windows XP-7 had a pretty good level of density while also feeling relatively clean and would be good to take some cues from.

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devilsdata 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah I'd love to prefer KDE, but GNOME is closer to what I'm used to (Mac OS). Pity it's not that good and written in JS.

I've been hoping Cosmic DE improves enough to be usable.

	▲	cromka 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It doesn't matter that it's JS, they have their own, performant interpreter for it and it's a limited subset of JS. And that's just one layer, the rest is actual compiled code, increasingly Rust. I was skeptical, too, but it allows for some serious visual tweaking beyond what KDE allows without rewriting code.

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freecodeio 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use KDE and you made me right click everywhere and I can't find a menu without icons lol

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Kuraj an hour ago | parent [-]

Yeah with KDE it's all or nothing, either every menu item has an icon or you can turn off all of them.

This goes against the original argument which is that icons should only be used for universal idioms that can be recognized by the icon _only_. Otherwise it's just noise

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freecodeio an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

where do you disable them?

	▲	Kuraj an hour ago \| parent [-]
		System Settings > Application Style > Configure Icons and Toolbars

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IgnaciusMonk an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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