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 love 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.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        You should have tried Dash to Panel instead of Dash to Dock, based on your preferences. That plus Wintile is what keeps me on Gnome vs Plasmathese days.

    • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 days ago

      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

  • superkret@feddit.org
    2·
    1 day ago

    I also recently switched back to Plasma cause Gnome somehow had issues managing open Windows. GTA Vice City launched and ran in Plasma but only gave a black screen in Gnome.
    I tend to use Plasma on desktops and Gnome on laptops, and like them both.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    131·
    2 days ago

    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
      3·
      2 days ago

      Same. I still really love Gnome with my heart, but it just felt… inferior… compared to KDE 6.

      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.

  • mski@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 days ago

    I just switched from GNOME to Plasma in the past week, after a long time on gnome, and Plasma 6 is great. The only thing I miss so far is viewing all my windows on the desktop when I push the meta key - alt-tab seems clunky in comparison.

    Any suggestions there?

          • mski@lemmy.ca
            3·
            2 days ago

            Plasma is great for the flexibility (shortcuts), and so easy these days.

            I was searching for task switcher, expose, etc. And just completely gapped on searching ‘overview’. (Web searches didn’t show it either, possibly because it’s too simple, so nobody posts about it.)

            Next up I might have to play some window tiling (e.g. like i3, sway & hyprland).

    • idefix@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 day ago

      It’s been a bumpy road. I have strong memories of Gnome devs explaining to users how wrong they were to dislike Nautilus’s awful spatial mode. And when that guy refused to implement a switch off option because users were wrong to ask for it.

      Now really, it’s quite functional once you’ve tweaked with gnome-tools and added vital extensions. You also have to remember useless stuff such as “Video” means “Totem”. I’ll just never understand why they don’t really care about sane defaults.

      • Bezier@suppo.fi
        1·
        1 day ago

        Nautilus’s awful spatial mode

        I looked this up. Yeah, it’s awful, and the defense seems unhinged, really blaming people who dislike it.

    • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      GNOME 2 was fun and easy. It felt like they were trying to learn from the mistakes of Windows and Mac UIs.

      • themoken@startrek.website
        8·
        2 days ago

        GNOME 3 introduced the current shell paradigm where you don’t really have a start menu but a variety of searches, integrated indicators, per-app desktops with a dock etc.

        Before, it was far more conventional experience like Plasma/Windows/Cinnamon are now. GNOME 2 was forked to be the MATE desktop if you want to check it out.

        • leisesprecher@feddit.org
          1·
          1 day ago

          And most importantly for me personally: they seem to disregard people using multiple windows.

          I rarely work in one window, and having a large screen for only one app is pretty stupid.

          Gnome feels like it’s intended for small screen devices like tablets.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
    4·
    2 days ago

    I’m the opposite, after plasma I went gnome

    Better than any plasma experience I tried to craft myself – and it’s the default setting – so I have no reason to come back. But I still could switch, as long as cosmic is good

  • typhoon@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 days ago

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