#Digikam ubuntu 18.04 merge t windows

#Digikam ubuntu 18.04 merge t windows

It still just builds on top of the principles laid out by Windows 95. In Gnome, the other 10%* can simply do what they want using gnome-tweak-tool and extensions.Įrgonomic : KDE ergonomic is very old school. The fact is, 90%* of the users don't need 75%* of the options provided by KDE. You may like the personalization possibilities, but the more you have the more it tends to confuse the hell out of new users (even more true with grandmas who have never seen a keyboard before). Usability : KDE is the kind of desktop environment where people like having a control center as complicated as the space shuttle cockpit. Something simple and handy that works out of the box. From a GUI standpoint, they want something that address the need of 90%* of people nicely (the other 10 percents can usually take care of themselves). I think the main reason is in the sentence 'Linux for human beings'. I don't dispute that KDE can be a great desktop and has its considerable virtues, but I do think it's very much its own thing, and not the mainstream, or obvious choice for noobs it's often proclaimed to be. Like, Konqueror: to a non-KDE user, WTH is with that app? And the constant argument that somehow KDE is going to be more familiar to a windows user, is this just because the panel and 'start button' are at the bottom and lower left by default? Because they are familiar with it, KDE users see a great desktop with features none of the others have, but maybe underestimate the degree of foreign-ness in it. So, this is where a big divide exists I think b/t the KDE community and the rest of the linux users. For me I would rather have simplified guis, and when I need to do something more fine grained I just use the cli. I find them foreign, confusing, and non-intuitive. They certainly have a legitimate basis for that argument, and the apps are quite good in general.īut not to me. Now, long-time KDE users think that the extensive configurability of these gui apps make them very useful and probably have features that become indispensable over time. They also have lots of features, extra features, and sometimes intrusive options that make things a bit confusing right off the bat. The KDE apps are generally their own little ecosystem, and unless you're a habitual KDE user, they're not familiar. Leaving aside the way the DE itself works, which has gotten a bit more straighforward than the cashews, widgets and activities of KDE4 (unless it's just better hidden), the main issue is the apps. I might prefer Gnome to Unity or XFCE or Budgie or LXDE or even i3, but in general the environment and particularly the apps are mostly familiar, and I could adapt to any of them quickly. I've used almost every single DE and WM available on Linux, and most are very familiar bits arranged a bit differently. From the perspective of a non KDE user (who has made a good effort to warm up to KDE on a number of occasions, and failed), to me KDE is the most foreign of desktop environments.