gtk3, gtk4 (probably?) qt, qt in flatpak, gtk3 in flatpak, gtk4 in flatpak (probably)… I’m just not fighting it anymore
At this point I’m just happy if they’re all using a dark theme at least.
Meanwhile kde:
i found the original in reddit, from about four years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/tffr4l/some_kde_plasma_uiux_problems/#lightbox
(i’m not saying it’s related, but at least people should be able to read the text now)
Thanks, I updated my post.
All of that and it’s still nicer to look at for me haha.
Oh for fuck’s sake…
I feel it has gotten much better in recent years. The first time I tried KDE 5 it looked weird to me. But now I acutally quite like KDE 6. Or maybe I’ve just learned to tolerate it…
Actually, I don’t. What am I looking at?
Kde has mostly small padding and alignment issues instead of having a completely random design.
I can live with that.I have a theory that if everything was pixel perfect, centered, perfectly aligned and looked the same, the thing would look too sterile. There’s basically a perfect world, written down in books and texts that is being taught to students and there’s the real world. In many areas, these two do not match and the above image is the result of someone’s text book world view not matching the real world.
Could the discover store have a better UI? Yes. Will a centered, down-anchored, pixel perfect button make it better? Subjective.
sorry for the “venting” post, but i had to laugh as i rearranged my windows
Unfortunately, the issue is more widespread in the world of UI design. Even in closed ecosystems like Windows, you have a random mix of different UI styles, and this cancer called “flat design” makes things even worse. Carl Svensson published a nice blog post about exactly this issue a couple of years ago: https://datagubbe.se/decusab/
As someone using a tiling wm idk what these buttons are for.
my condolences
I’m very glad to see projects like libadapta as themable alternatives to the libadwaita dogma. I’ve painstakingly themed my desktop to look and feel like a cohesive, modernized NT 4 workstation and should seriously consider contributing to libadapta in anticipation of libadwaita coming to more and more programs.
I am very stubborn about my computer’s GUI, but also hopeful the community can bring back theming where GNOME is dead set against it. If they can make WindowBlinds for modern Windows, the equivalent in Linux is definitely achievable.
All my homies hate libadwaita it’s bad.
A bit off-topic, but I really appreciate projects that respect their upstreams, and attempt to improve in their own ways (from libadapta’s README):
LibAdwaita has the right to be what it wants to be and to not support what it doesn’t want to support.
Oh I am so looking into this.
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Heh, everyone here seems to be coming from kde or gnome, and I’m over here with xfce like that guy with the bong while the two girls fight.
Meanwhile MATE chads just sitting in the attic listening to the chaos.
MATE is to GNOME as Ash’s Pickachu is to Raichu.
I’m not sure I have a point, but the analogy rings true I think.
Idk about Pokemon so I have no clue LMAO.
MATE is a fork of gnome 2, made by people who did not like the paradigm gnome3 was heading towards. So, much like Ash’s pickachu which never evolves to Raichu, Mate remains “old”.
MATE is the first of four “Screw that we’re forking GNOME” distros.
Throw a JetBrains app in there for a complete monstrosity 🤣
As a Gnome’r I tend to lean towards apps that I can make look like they belong, but I put up with JetBrains because there tools work really well for my needs
Where tools?
this from the people that stonewalled server side decorations in wayland
eye twitches
adw-gtk3 contributes a small bit to the consistency of window decorations
Does anyone know if KDE is any better with this?
I find KDE works well with GTK3 and below, but GTK4 apps are set to ignore themes, which is a design decision on the GTK4 side. They invariably look completely odd and out of place as they often force the entire Gnome app UI as well as an unalterable theme.
And then Flatpaks also don’t generally follow system themes as they’re so sandboxed (although there are some work arounds, including making them consistent as flatpaks or allowing them access to the system theme folders to pick up themeing).
But anecdotally I’ve not had the level of title bar variability on KDE as that screenshot. Although admittedly I do tend to actively avoid Gnome apps as I don’t like the design philosophy.
I find KDE looks nicer but it always runs like shit on my machine. Skill issue probably
A little? You can theme Gtk apps to match, but it’s not pixel perfect even with the stock theme.
Its always slightly off on padding and margins, but the overall outcome looks more uniform
I was under the impression that one could force these to be themed, is that inaccurate? KDE Fedora btw.
They all look great man, congrats
