Comment by still_grokking
4 years ago
> Only using Qt apps on Linux is very hard.
There are even whole distris doing that… ;-)
I have hardly any GTK app installed and I would not know what I'm missing. (Firefox uses GTK but it has it's own UI anyway). Electron? That's the plague of modern times. Besides VSCode (which I will switch away in a blink as soon as the alternatives are ready) I don't use any Electron peep. Also here I would not know what I'm missing.
But of course, it's only me. YMMV
> Cmd+Shift+/ to search all menus is also super useful and I don't think you can do that on KDE.
Global menu is of course integrated in KDE. You can even use it form KRunner (of course with fuzzy search).
https://libreddit.northboot.xyz/r/kde/comments/r85jcz/tip_yo...
I think the idea of using a "HUD" in KDE is actually even older than the macOS feature.
https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud/
> If you don't think macOS can be configured then you are mistaken.
Apple products are made for the mass market. That's one of the reasons they actually follow the same philosophy as Gnome. What this means regarding options everybody knows I guess:
Options are hard to maintain and "confuse the user".
So Apple products are dumbed down even more with every release. (They even replace perfectly fine working software with "touch-ware" in the attempt to make everything more tailored to the causal users).
I'm glad you like KDE and by all means keep using it. It sounds like it's the right DE for you.
That being said, your statements about macOS sounds like they are coming from someone who's never used it and are making a fairly uninformed straw-man opinions about it. For instance, the statement "Apple products are dumbed down even more with every release" is just demonstrably false. Apple products gets more features with every release. For instance, the last macOS release got Shortcuts, Focus Modes, and Universal Control. All of which are power user features.
How do you get Firefox to respect Cmd (Meta) consistently? I find it's been half broken since Quantum.
This funny "windows key" has any use in Firefox? I didn't know.
Firefox is a mess! (On every OS I think). I'm already happy to have proper looking dialogs by now…
There is a feature request hanging around to be able to configure shortcuts in FF. Nothing happened until now. Since many many years…
That's the problem if there is no choice.
You can only use Mozilla crap, or Google spy-ware.
Imho a replacement for the whole insanity that "the web" is is long overdue. But I guess nothing will ever happen. (Except maybe if our future AI-Overlords would show mercy).
In Firefox, setting ui.key.accelKey to 91 used to work properly. Now, it doesn't on some pages.