your KDE (screenshots)

[MoonRise]

LOL, OK it's laying there so I gotta take the bait - some people just hate change.

LOL - It's not about not liking change but what is actually aesthetically pleasing!

[Fred47]

Speaking of not changing, check out my desktop. It's pretty much the same as I had with Windows 95 which was my first GUI OS then every Windows OS after that, Mepis, Sidux, Chakra and now Kubuntu. Pretty boring I know. I autohide my panel just to gain a tiny bit more screen size. I work from the file manager, I use the old cascading Application Menu because it requires the least amount of clicks to open an application. I don't monitor my resources, as that just uses up resources. I also change my desktop image every day with the Slideshow app. Nothing fancy, simple and easy.

[UncleGrandpa]

Almost looks like my Win 10 DE

[UncleGrandpa]

My Desktop

Almost looks like my Win 10 DE

[Schwarzer Kater]

Today I thought: "Plasma 5.27 is here - is now the time to get rid of Latte Dock ?" I had some spare time and tried something new on my openSUSE standby system.

I do miss the parabolic zooming effect, but I think probably I could live without it (and yes, I like standard Breeze - only colour scheme and icons are slightly modified and the fonts are Cabin and Fira Code ):

[MoonRise]

Nice layout!

[GreyGeek]

Indeed!
I began using Linux on May 1, 1998 after suffering innumerable crashes from Win95, et. al. I moved to SuSE in Sept of 1998 because they advertized the KDE 1.0 Beta as their DE. For the next ten years I used KDE exclusively, regardless of which distro I was using at the time, because I could configure it to look and feel and act like WinXX. Being able to do that avoided a lot of mental dissonance. After I retired in 2008 I went with and still use the default KDE DE environment with next to no customization. It just works for me.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Thank you. There was really not much time necessary to do this…
Oh - it also was in the late 90s when I started experimenting with S.u.S.E. and Yellow Dog Linux.
Until KDE Plasma 5 was released (about 10 years ago?) I had preferred GNOME 2 for my private computers - alongside Mac OS X.
Since Plasma 5 came out Linux has become my main OS - Windows has never been my primary system, not from Windows 3 till 11, but I always had to have something to do with it.

In the meantime I centered the left dock, I think it looks better this way (although more "normal") - that's the way I also have set it up in Debian and Kubuntu.
I don't use any transparency or blur in openSUSE, because in my opinion those do not work well with Solarized Light :

[MoonRise]

Love that choice of wallpaper there!

[Schwarzer Kater]

If you like to look at wallpapers, here is my "main" OS (still with Latte Dock and I still like Breeze ):

[NoWorries]

For Wallpapers, I take a different approach. What I do is collect photos that I have taken or borrowed and put them in a Wallpaper file and then "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper" to access this file and change the images in the file, say every 15 minutes. As I have an external monitor as well, I have another wallpaper file to access. An example of the images in one of my wallpaper files is attached.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Nice photos! Most of them look like I would enjoy living there (if a good internet connection is provided ).

[Schwarzer Kater]

After the update to Plasma 5.27.x for Kubuntu 22.04 LTS from the Kubuntu Backports Extra PPA unfortunately some little annoyances with Latte Dock increased (Latte Dock is still at version 0.10.8 for 22.04 and there is no chance to update it, because of the newer versions' dependencies).

So with some regret I decided to get rid of Latte Dock - at least in Kubuntu 22.04. I still happily use it in Debian 12 and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Today I had some spare time and tried to recreate my usual desktop layout with onboard Plasma tools - the update to Plasma 5.27.x does make it possible to have more or less decent floating panels now.
I also used the "new" Thermal Monitor plug-in for my top panel.

I am still not quite sure about the outcome.
There is a lot of eye-candy (and some of the eye-candy also has a functional aspect…) that is missing now.
You cannot see this on the screenshots, but examples are: missing shadows, fixed gaps, the "defloating" of a panel when you maximise a window in Plasma is a bit "meh", there is no parabolic effect at all in the mimicked dock, of course, and the indicators in the Plasma panel "dock" are also a bit, well, "inferior" (and there are no good Plasma plug-in for those things yet).
Enough of the ranting - I guess I will eventually get used to it - one day…




The terminal font is Fira Code, btw.

[Snowhog]

Enough of the ranting - I guess I will eventually get used to it - one day…

You can't live in the past .... forever.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Well, one can try…

No - you are right of course!