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This week in KDE: #Plasma6 is not only gearing up for a big technological shift, but is also adding cool new features and improving the user experience
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This week in KDE: #Plasma6 is not only gearing up for a big technological shift, but is also adding cool new features and improving the user experience
Look forward to sound themes! Snappier responses! Prettier widgets! More awesome things!
https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/28/this-week-in-kde-sounds-like-plasma-6/
@ChristianWS There are 2 consistencies: Consistent to the system and consistent to the application.
I prefer consistent to the application, because I think the application developer is more capable to kow what the app needs then the general window decoration provider is.
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...yes, I agree with that, and that is why SSDs are superior. They allow the app developer to do whatever they want inside the app, while also making sure the window frame is consistent with the rest of the system.
It's like a gallery wall in a home, you can mix photos and paintings with varying styles, and they would still look like they fit together if you use the same frame style on them.
@ChristianWS What if the application developer needs more? Hide the close button, unallow to minimize, display an exit button on fullscreen, Transform the whole app design on the fly or just to have a dark design for the application including decoration (This one hurts my eyes extremly for krita on windows 🥲️). SSD is just not flexible and might not even provide the feature set required by an application.
Thats why it would be nice to give them the option to implement it directly.
I mean, disabling the close button is probably on the top 10 ways to give a PC user a panic attack. And there was a time when games had an exit button on fullscreen.
Also, what the hell, if Undertale can jumpscare the player while still using Windows titlebar on display then SSDs are not an issue.
@ChristianWS And yes, this is only the current, very early state. Libdecor is will have theming support to have an option to look "system design native" (Blender) and for Gimp, this is experimental on an pre-release. Qt on the other hand, I assume, probably doesnt care right now, because the apps that use Qt and matter come with an own design language and own CSD anyways and everything else is probably not worth the work for basically linux wayland only.