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[firey]

I agree with everyone on the kde looks. I use cinnamon and I think it looks really clean and slim which is what I like in a ui

[.Neo]

If they fix up the taskbar and reduce blue halo around active windows it doesn't really look all that bad.

[threetonesun]

KDE has always been about large, garish looking interfaces, but I personally always preferred Gnome over Windows.

[The Laughing Man]

Ugh, I'm sorry but it looks like Fisher Price designed this... I'll stick to more lightweight better looking window managers.

Also on a side note why is every popular desktop window manager adding stupid transitional effects now? Most look atrocious and are sluggish..

[bjoswald]

I think KDE is the best-looking DE, but also way overblown when it comes to customization. Yeah, it's a good thing and all, but the menus have menus for menus, so it's kind of annoying. I have high hopes for it to take off, however, because I really don't like the way GNOME is going and XFCE looks and feels ancient.

[AR556]

OpenSUSE rolls KDE better than anyone

[Arthur Dovokinov]

Maybe you people who complain about how KDE looks, write about it to KDE itself? Go to freenode IRC, #kde-art room, and tell how it should be. Or fill a bug at bugzilla.kde.org. Or try to fix it yourself (this is open-source, baby!) and show us the progress and release a patch.

So many options, and you choose to complain.

[.Neo]

Arthur Dovokinov, on 10 August 2012 - 06:50, said:

Maybe you people who complain about how KDE looks, write about it to KDE itself? Go to freenode IRC, #kde-art room, and tell how it should be. Or fill a bug at bugzilla.kde.org. Or try to fix it yourself (this is open-source, baby!) and show us the progress and release a patch.

So many options, and you choose to complain.

Cute. I remember a few years back people suggesting very specific things to make the window manager look better to the people involved. They were met with great hostility and found themselves in a never ending debate. End result being, nothing changed. If that's still common practice I understand people for not putting in the effort again. The exact same thing happened with Camino, an OS X browser based on Gecko. Huge fights while the only thing people dared to suggest was to incorporate a lavender/blue sidebar in the bookmarks manager and a borderless window design, as is the norm on OS X.

And before you start: Not everyone has coding skills but do have a very keen eye when it comes to interface design.

[smooth_criminal1990]

patseguin, on 06 August 2012 - 16:23, said:

I actually have a nice tower at home that I built originally as a HTPC before I went with smaller enclosures. Maybe I should make it a Linux box. I haven't seen Linux, Gnome, or KDE in years.

To be honest, you'd probably be better off using XBMC distro for an HTPC, though you can install the program itself on top of something else, Windows included.

[bjoswald]

Arthur Dovokinov, on 10 August 2012 - 06:50, said:

Maybe you people who complain about how KDE looks, write about it to KDE itself? Go to freenode IRC, #kde-art room, and tell how it should be. Or fill a bug at bugzilla.kde.org. Or try to fix it yourself (this is open-source, baby!) and show us the progress and release a patch.

So many options, and you choose to complain.

That's what Linux needs more of, right there: Instead of agreeing to disagree, why not dig up the trusty ol' "fine, do it yourself" stick (that has beaten the dead horse to death so many times it's barely a horse)? The Linux community is always in dire need of unwarranted hostility, right?

[Growled]

I really don't care what it looks like, within reason of course. I just want it to work. Gnome and GTK has served me well over the years but it's time to move on.....to KDE.