Gnome: “Let’s have one good option to do something and put it in gsettings for the masochists”
KDE:
there’s no winning this game. Allow for too little customization and people complain the software is limited and stifling. Add too many and it’s complex and not user-friendly. I think KDE usually makes good choices. I get what you mean though.
The winning is done with functional UX design, this is the result of an engineer who believed they could but didn’t stop to ask if they should.
There are ways to make it powerful and user friendly. I love the first time setup greeter of Cosmic for example. Gives you some default layouts to choose from, shows you that there is a tiling option (defaulting to windowed iirc), showcasing the power, helping noobs who later wish to explore
I really want to love cosmic — and maybe someday I will. For now it’s still so incomplete that I can’t use it for more than a little while before having to jump back into plasma.
I already love it, but there is a bug that means that sometimes it does not recover from sleep, which on a laptop makes it unusable
Yeah there are a lot of gotchas. For me there are issues with setting sound source and sync, so my zoom calls and obs screen recordings don’t work consistently.
I think it makes a good choice for people who like a lot of options. Personally I find it cluttered.
This seems like one of the things you use to find a new feature.
When you realise you are using it frequently, you add it to the customisable toolbar.
For anyone interested then if you have a global menu enabled the “More” selection will be in the global menu removing two clicks.
Also if for these niche columns you can always add them and sort my clicking the column header.
Not default behaviour. KDE Dolphin doesn’t hide Sort By on its default settings. If you didn’t change it, this is the fault of your distribution.
Oh it doesn’t. If you just right click, you have the sort by right there. But you also have it 3 menus deep
It’s about choice. Some prefer it deeper inside.
Web apps: modal opening on top of another modal
KDE: “Hold my beer”
Do you want to sort by?
Yeh
