Comment by vitorgrs
2 months ago
I really like KDE in general, and how full featured it is, but their design just feels dated compared to all modern OSes and other DMs on Linux...
The only reason why I'm a gnome user, it's because of that.
And yes, I know I can just customize, but everytime I try, it just make KDE more sluggish for some reason, and doesn't really feels natural.
It's interesting to me that this is so common. I feel exactly the opposite way, as if KDE is the only one that feels modern and good-looking.
Not saying you're wrong, just that it's interesting how much perspectives differ on design, I suppose.
I feel the same way and it's a little unnerving how often people think KDE looks old meanwhile gnome or even Windows look... good. Like, are we looking at the same thing?
Having as much whitespace as possible and icons over text does not a modern application make.
In general my feeling on the KDE design is that heavily outshines Windows, which consistently delivers some of the worst design work I have ever seen on a desktop.
I agree, but also if they don't add a stupid hamburger menu I'm switching back to KDE!
Oh no I just checked and they also drank the kool-aid. Seems like you can turn it off at least.
Have you tried Plasma 6 yet? To me it feels way more modern than Gnome.
Yes, I tried!
I'm genuinely curious if there's anything specific about their default theme and UX that makes it feel "dated" to you?
For light theme, their default color... The grayish combined with the UX in general feels for me very Windows 2000 or so.
But talking about real UI/UX, I do guess it's just about everything. It feels like the UI/UX was developed by programmers. It feels unpolished.
Border radius, paddings... A lot of things there being square and not round... The default icons. The context menu being to square, again. Even the default close/minimize buttons.
Like, UI wise, Finder and Nautilus is just way ahead than Dolphin for me.
Libadwaita apps also feel very consistent. I can find most of my apps with basically same consistent design on gnome.
UI wise I find gnome beautiful, their problem it's with UX and the excess of simplicity, like removing real features from Nautilus...
But at the same time I guess, KDE made the mistake of being too much complex UI wise. Even their screenshot tool it's a little insane hahahah
Maybe I just find it KDE ugly because I got super used by Gnome, macOS and Windows 10/11 UI? Likely.