Dan SimmonsFedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
shiningheroI had to check the proposal at its source to make sure it wasn't an April Fools joke.
I’m not a fan of GNOME. I feel like it’s restrictive. KDE allows me to do more things with windows but feels much slower.
TashI started using Fedora / GNOME as my daily driver on my laptop for a few months and can see where this change may be coming from. I really like how clean GNOME is and it works really well with smaller single screens (laptop) and multi-touch input /w gestures… but the reason I haven’t switched my desktop over is because I can’t see how that same design philosophy translates to a desktop environment with just a mouse and keyboard.
Trying to figure out how to manage background applications like chat programs, soft-phones, and even email seems to be an uphill battle with GNOME.
atocciI'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. My Linux experience might be limited, but I installed Ubuntu recently and tried sticking with GNOME and I just couldn't wrap my head around how I was supposed to get anything done without going straight for the terminal. At that point, I might as well not use the desktop environment at all.
I totally get why this is being put forth. Watch Brodie’s videos on the Wayland portals (after binging on LUS, of course ;-) ), and notice which DE is more actively helpful in making the portals better…I guarantee you it doesn’t start with a “G.” They actually mention this in the change proposal, and I doubt that Red Hat is blind to this difference.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays-out.
Jure RepincThat would be huge improvement. They could even make it look and act almost as restrictively as GNOME is since KDE Plasma is so flexible and configurable so it can easily mimic GNOME or any other desktop out there. And from there one they could slowly start unlocking the full power of KDE Plasma desktop.
Reminds me of the KDE guy who quit Red Hat when they used to do exactly that (make KDE behave like GNOME) like 20 years ago.