- Posted:
- 2012-06-14
- Tags:
- kde rant gnome
I guess KDE will be my new desktop now that GNOME has gone fucked. For
some reason both gnome-shell and Unity works slow as hell with my 3d
drivers. KDE works decently though, so it can't all be fglxr's
fault. Plus, I was kind of content with classical GNOME without any of
the bling bling and semantic desktop junk.
KDE 4.8.3 does impress - animations are smooth and there are lots of
shadows in all the right places. It has lots of features and lots of
places where you can customize things. I guess that that is both its
greatest advantage and drawback:
- There is no such thing as a desktop theme. Oh, no that would have
been to simple. There is a setting controlling the audio events
theme, one more theme for window decorations, one for mouse
pointers, desktop theme (for the panel), start screen theme, widget
engine (controlling how Qt renders widgets), color theme, icon
theme, GTK+ theme and finally smiley theme. I don't have the
patience to tweak that stuff. Just give me some graphics that works
please.
- Which the default graphics theme Oxygene does not. It appears to
have been designed by someone with a fetish for shades of
gray. Window frames have gray gradients, panels are gray, menues,
buttons etc. It is really hard to read dark gray text on a brighter
gray background, especially when that background is
semi-transparent.
- Oh what wouldn't I give to remove that stupid transparency from the
bottom panel. KDE has settings all over the place but not one for
making the panels opaque. The idea is that you should have to
download a panel theme with a non-transparent panel. Which is a
great idea until you realize that every damn theme author in the
whole world loves semi-transparent panels because they are more
concerned with shiny happy graphics than being usable.
- The KDE people could just rip Clearlooks from GNOME and be done
with it. Then they'd have both an awesome desktop with great
looking desktop with BILLIONS of smooth animations and shadows and
ALSO readable text! It saddens me that KDE gets so close to
perfect, then has so many EASILY fixable design issues that it
significantly degrades the whole experience. Like a marathon runner
100 meters ahead of the pack who trips over himself and falls a few
meters from the finish line.
Everyone got to rant, this was my turn.