Looking forward to this.
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Looking forward to this. I do have a question for the more seasoned people here: I installed Fedora 41 not too long after its release on a new PC, which has been my daily driver every since. Very happy with it, tweaked everything to my liking. However, by mistake I installed Workstation (with Gnome) and then switched to my preferred KDE Plasma as the DE. This has left some corners of my system with the Gnome look and feel, which is fine, but I prefer if it were more consistent.
My question:
- Can I/do you recommend that I upgrade Fedora in place? I prefer this if it means I don't have to reinstall everything.
- Or do you recommend I do a fresh install anyway for a clean upgrade and at the same time clean up my DE? What is the least disruptive way to do this?
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Looking forward to this. I do have a question for the more seasoned people here: I installed Fedora 41 not too long after its release on a new PC, which has been my daily driver every since. Very happy with it, tweaked everything to my liking. However, by mistake I installed Workstation (with Gnome) and then switched to my preferred KDE Plasma as the DE. This has left some corners of my system with the Gnome look and feel, which is fine, but I prefer if it were more consistent.
My question:
- Can I/do you recommend that I upgrade Fedora in place? I prefer this if it means I don't have to reinstall everything.
- Or do you recommend I do a fresh install anyway for a clean upgrade and at the same time clean up my DE? What is the least disruptive way to do this?
Which corners are you referring to, specifically? There are some applications that use GTK components, those are styled seperately in the settings under "GNOME/GTK Application Style". They will never look exactly like a native KDE/QT based application, but you can get them closer.
Likely you had a lot of GTK apps included with Workstation, you could also look into Qt alternatives to replace them - for example Gedit does not conform in KDE, but Kate will.
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Looking forward to this. I do have a question for the more seasoned people here: I installed Fedora 41 not too long after its release on a new PC, which has been my daily driver every since. Very happy with it, tweaked everything to my liking. However, by mistake I installed Workstation (with Gnome) and then switched to my preferred KDE Plasma as the DE. This has left some corners of my system with the Gnome look and feel, which is fine, but I prefer if it were more consistent.
My question:
- Can I/do you recommend that I upgrade Fedora in place? I prefer this if it means I don't have to reinstall everything.
- Or do you recommend I do a fresh install anyway for a clean upgrade and at the same time clean up my DE? What is the least disruptive way to do this?
If you do a reinstall, I'd recommend going with a Kinoite install. It's like regular Fedora KDE, except that it avoids this risk of traces of past experiments everywhere.
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Which corners are you referring to, specifically? There are some applications that use GTK components, those are styled seperately in the settings under "GNOME/GTK Application Style". They will never look exactly like a native KDE/QT based application, but you can get them closer.
Likely you had a lot of GTK apps included with Workstation, you could also look into Qt alternatives to replace them - for example Gedit does not conform in KDE, but Kate will.
Thank you for replying, very informative. I think I have most of the actions/types I wanted associated with my preferred ones now. The most noticeable one is Firefox when I open downloads from the menu. I'm not sure if Firefox uses xdg or not? I don't mind GTK or Gnome at all, in fact I probably have spent more time on Gnome, but I do like when things are consistent.
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Thank you for replying, very informative. I think I have most of the actions/types I wanted associated with my preferred ones now. The most noticeable one is Firefox when I open downloads from the menu. I'm not sure if Firefox uses xdg or not? I don't mind GTK or Gnome at all, in fact I probably have spent more time on Gnome, but I do like when things are consistent.
Ah yeah, Firefox is GTK too, and annoyingly hides xdg behind a setting. I apologize in advance as my knowledge here is bit limited, but if firefox is installed with RPM, I think you'll need
xdg-desktop-portal-kdeinstalled, then in firefox's about:config setwidget.use-xdg-desktop-portal= true. I'm not sure how it works with flatpak though.But hopefully that helps, best of luck!
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Ah yeah, Firefox is GTK too, and annoyingly hides xdg behind a setting. I apologize in advance as my knowledge here is bit limited, but if firefox is installed with RPM, I think you'll need
xdg-desktop-portal-kdeinstalled, then in firefox's about:config setwidget.use-xdg-desktop-portal= true. I'm not sure how it works with flatpak though.But hopefully that helps, best of luck!
That's a great tip! It turns out I must have already tried some of that. I found multiple settings in about:config. Anything with a file picker works (open, save as), but the "open folder" from the Downloads dialog must just not use xdg-open, since none of the settings had an effect on that. It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice to have my Dolphin bookmarks and places.
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That's a great tip! It turns out I must have already tried some of that. I found multiple settings in about:config. Anything with a file picker works (open, save as), but the "open folder" from the Downloads dialog must just not use xdg-open, since none of the settings had an effect on that. It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice to have my Dolphin bookmarks and places.
Can I just say: hats off to the bug archaeology you've done there
