TL;DR??

Diese Buzzword-Suppe im Preview ist nicht sehr einladend

Yes, as libadwaita is just one platform theme of GTK4.

Is there a list of good GIMP 3 compatible plugins?

Oh damn I always assumed it was just video

Tbh custom libadwaitas are kind of how GTK4 is supposed to be used.

QT is built from the ground up to be used by anyone

Well, KDEs Qt fork (I think they have one). Qt is released proprietary and the older versions are open source. Which may make it pretty well funded but also always behind on updates.

just a toolkit for GNOME.

Tbh after reading a recent blog post, I think this is not true at all.

Like theming can be shipped as part of the platform toolkit or something.

Budgie made a crazy turn. From a legacy GTK based desktop to Wayland and Qt??

I dont know why Qt but I guess it is good

Well, but Flatpak also has the rule to not break anything by default.

And they call things like changing filesystem=host to the specific directories (home, run, mnt) “security theatre” and prefer waiting forever for legacy apps to magically fix it

Likely because of user namespace access

Good choice I think, way too sensitive to just work like that

Did you know that ShitDows doesnt support middle mouse button for anything? XD it opens the start menu like all the time

No opening in new tab or closing tabs

Typische Wetter vs. Klima Probleme

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Dafuck

Danke, die Interpretation war mir auch etwas zu voreingenommen

You are talking about global themes which is a bundle of plasmoids (which are executable code), SDDM themes (executable code, they are working on their own login manager to change that) as well as simple files like color schemes, cursor themes, icon themes, splash screens.

Well that is probably dash to panel. Or does it autohide somehow?

Themes are not a security risk XD executable code, widgets and a lack of standardization resulting in shady install scripts, that is a security risk

Themes are just colors

Edit: after reading the post, the below is not really relevant to the blog post

Interesting one

I guess it is fair that nobody wants to deal with GNOME and their reluctance of theming. I like theming and despise “light” (white) themes or not well readable dark themes (that dont save any energy on non-OLED displays).

I am on KDE, using GNOME at work (it is okay but worse in like 20 aspects I regularly use). Tried COSMIC on lower end hardware and it was not great.

I like that they support theming but agree, their desktop is pretty ugly.

Tho I use GNOME with dash-to-panel and blur-my-shell as well as the breeze cursor. The default theme is kinda weird (not blurring wastes potential) and the macOS like top bar is worse to use and wastes screen space (most importantly on Laptops).

GNOME is way worse than KDE, COSMIC has a couple of nice things but is worse than GNOME still for my use cases. No surprises.

I have to stress though that statically linked binaries are not good. Many distros shipping COSMIC use those, wasting RAM, optimisations and potentially vendoring outdated dependencies.

I also believe people when they dislike C++ and say KDE has a messy codebase. So I very much hope that COSMIC (with a substantial theme) can replace KDE for me. But I highly doubt that.

More importantly is, how old DEs make the transition from C and C++ to Rust, Zig, Go or whatever else you prefer.

With Windows going all in on Javascript you can see how not to do it XD

Debian has GNOME by default I guess, but yes, try KDE.

Install nix, use nix-shell to define specific python versions.