Comment by vitorgrs

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.