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gnome style is too rounded for me hurts my eyes when i see it
I dislike GTK because it looks clunky and dated to me. I need glassy blur effects on all windows.
same except the last part, I need more win95 looking apps
Surely this Blur makes the cut, too!
I’d be fine with it, but I had to pin the flatpak to an old release for now, because the redesign fucked up the migration, deleted all my presets and also caused issues with voice chat apps not getting any audio input. The new UI is also unquestionably a downgrade and less accessible when it comes to setting slider values, but I hope that can be fixed with time. I certainly don’t blame FOSS devs for their work.
Btw. seeing some of the comments in here: is it the fate of all Linux shitposting forums to be filled with hardliners who really care what software you install on you Linux system? Let me use my GTK apps in peace. I don’t need opinions on UI cleanliness and density from people who don’t even use easyeffects, because my god, is it a mess currently.
at least kde has some ui density, gtk5/6 is atrocious on lowres displays
theres gtk6 now?!
oh bruh i meant gtk4/5 haha sorry
I had 768p monitor, gnome title bars ate my screen space, I had to unironicly set my scale factor to 70% on gnome tweaks to even attempt to try out gnome and even then I gave up and installed plasma
i just can’t stand gnome anymore, it was my favorite for a long time too. KDE is fine but I fucking hate Dolphin. I’m into Cosmic right now but I’m not sure I like the file manager
That’s crazy Dolphin is the best file manager on Linux. Nemo is second and the rest is unusable trash lacking so many features.
Last time I used Nemo it was an unstable mess, but that was a while ago. I’m sure it’s been improved.
Interesting, dolphin is by far my favorite file manager. What don’t you like about it?
I’d have to use it again to tell you, to be honest. It’s been couple months since I last did and so my memory is a little foggy except for my dislike. I remember not liking how tabs work and how it took a bunch of tinkering to make it less annoying.
on a machine that I ran for years, i basically did kde but with a different file manager, that was wonky and presented it’s own problems but it wasn’t Dolphin so I was satisfied
on a machine that I ran for years, i basically did kde but with a different file manager
Might’ve been PCManFM-Qt, which is also used by LXQt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMan_File_Manager
At least, that’s another Qt file manager I know of.Well, or it was Krusader: https://krusader.org/
But Krusader is funky, i.e. similar to Total Commander and GNU Midnight Commander…Krusader (or generally dual-pane file managers) is great once you get used to it. I have been using it (and Double Commander on Windows) for years now and wouldn’t want to get back to anything else.
Yeah, I often hear that. A few years ago, I tried to get into Krusader, because I also liked some of the features it has, but after two weeks or so, I realized that I don’t use the file manager nearly often enough to make progress in learning a different workflow. 😅
Well, and I also kind of had the problem that navigating into directories is quite fast on the terminal, especially with Fish shell, so I often do that there and then run
open .to launch the GUI file manager for the thumbnails or dragging into other GUI applications.
And that Frankenstein workflow is kind of diametrically opposed to dual-pane file managers, where you really need to navigate to different locations in the respective pane from within the file manager. 🫠
There’s also Konqueror, the file manager/web browser combo that was mostly replaced by dolphin but is still sort of maintained
I prefer kiki but you know, whatever…
It actually hurt me a little how they made a perfectly wellade GTK app into a QT mess for no reason whatsoever. But oh well, I don’t maintain it and it’s not my place to complain much about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like it still remains usable
You can read about the reasoning here.
Basically using GTK alone became a lot of unenjoyable work for them because they didn’t want to depend on libadwaita and since its something they do for free in their free time it has to be fun.
having targetted both Qt api and the new Libadwaita api, this is going to happen more and more. the new GTK APIs are a pain in the ass and it’s pretty clear they only target GNOME, and since GNOME 4, there’s been no guarantee of API backwards compatiblity. it’s a nightmare.
I mean it works for countless other applications in the Gnome ecosystem, but as you said. If it isn’t fun for them it’s absolutely their right to switch
Yes, for the Gnome ecosystem.
Gnome is dogshit though
Oh wow, looks at this nuanced opinion and awareness of taste /s
Not sure I follow. Which app?
Easy effects. It adds effects to your audio, allowing you to fix audio balance, pump up the basses, and take 50% of your CPU because you put too much effects
I use it btw
I really don’t like the KDE redisign of EasyEffects
see post
An app that also looked really good and fit into the rest of my ecosystem of Gtk apps
