After many years on GNOME, I finally submitted to Plasma supremacy.

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

I still like the look and feel of GNOME a lot so I spent a little time putting it together that way. I want a simple desktop with small elements to maximize real estate for windows. I also use the small taskbar on my work computer for the same reason. But with my work computer, I do show window titles because I usually have at least 5 workbooks open at once so it's nice to see which is which when I need to switch between them.

I KDE's application launcher. It feels very Windows XP with the way it sorts things. It just makes complete sense.

Century Gothic may not be the most readable font in the world, but I think it has an old school charm to it.

[universalmonk@lemm.ee]

Looks great!

[ravermeister@lemmy.rimkus.it]

I love the "Windows Just No" Button

[crabapple@lemmy.world]

Looks really good. Which Dock application is that?

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

Thanks! I'm using Latte for the dock.

[propagandalf@lemmy.world]

seems like you have recreated cosmic de ^^

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

Huh, I thought Latte dock had wrapped up with 6.

[amaterasu@lemmy.world]

I'm not a KDE user, is it possible to have the upper bar all the way up without showing the wallpaper above?

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

It's Debian so I'm on 5.

[2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yes, in fact that's the default for panels.

[muhyb@programming.dev]

Yes, basically pretty much everything you may want is possible. OP just uses the bar in floating mode.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

Ah, makes sense.

[azvaskvklenko@sh.itjust.works]

On 6 you can have similar experience to Latte with just the panel minus the animations and some of its customizations

[brianary@startrek.website]

KDE: With too much power comes too much responsibility.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

This literally just looks like gnome with extra steps…

[pastermil@sh.itjust.works]

Welcome to the club!

For me it feels more like Windows 7 instead.

[1984@lemmy.today]

I used to switch between plasma and gnome but that stopped with plasma 6. It was so good that it just became my primary. Now gnome feels bad when I try it. Everything looks bad there. No proper fractional scaling support, no hdr support etc etc.

[guenther_amanita@slrpnk.net]

Same. I still really love Gnome with my heart, but it just felt... inferior... compared to Gnome.

Everything looked sharper, like if I had switched from 720p to 4k, I could access my hardware better (e.g. control the brightness of my monitor, etc.) and much more.

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

And that's fine. I said I really liked gnome. The only extensions I had were weather in the top bar and dash to dock. I just wanted it to do a few extra things, and I wanted to play around with widgets. Gnome was also a bit too rigid for my taste. Plasma makes tweaking small things a joy.

For me, ootb Plasma felt too much like Windows. I use Windows all day at work so I want my home machines to look and feel completely unlike Windows.

[redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works]

As a (Plasma based) Kubuntu user I was wondering as well. Looks like they tried to emulate the gnome look and feel in the picture. In Kubuntu the default taskbar is at the bottom and the floating application bar doesn't exist