• [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I think this is a matter of taste

    I like gnomes toolbars, and I like macOS’s UI. Gnome mimics macOS a lot. A menu/title bar in gnome can have buttons, search boxes, really most types of control, which I think results in richer apps.

    KDE mimics classic windows UI, and I find the toolbar and title bar layouts are not what I like. Overall I just find KDE has a lot of empty space on its windows, and it’s fairly constrained in what kinds of buttons can go into the menu bars.

    I think many people like KDE because the title bar is just title and close buttons. I find that a waste of useful screen real estate.

    I was being a bit hyperbolic, but I don’t like the feel of it at all.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      You can set KDE to Mac style title bars also. I’m pretty sure it comes with a theme with that by default. You can also add many buttons and controls to it, like minimize/maximize, keep on top/below, and things like that. No search option though, as far as I’m aware. I’m not sure how that functions though. Does that mean a “find in page” style control? Surely searching doesn’t work the same for all applications, right?

      I think the thing is that Gnome is pretty opinionated. If you like that opinion then it’s great. If you don’t then too bad. KDE is the opposite. It usually comes with Windows style themes, but it does not have a strong opinion. You can make it like Mac, or whatever you want it to be. There are a ton of options to customize it.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        Wait what?

        I will try that. I begrudgingly use KDE because it works the best. I’ve seen a bunch of macOS skins and that’s not the problem for me.

        If I can get super key to work like macOS I’ll be very happy