Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Nightfox to Dr. What on Thu Feb 05 2026 01:37 pm

Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Dr. What to poindexter FORTRAN > Thu Feb 05 2026 06:55 am

There's a new term now: "Getti > DW> Gnomed".

It's when you install one application but it "needs" near > DW> all the Gnome environment loade > DW> to run, whether you use Gnome o >

not.

Yeah, I've noticed some Linux distro > have packages for Gnome support libraries. There are also KDE suppor > libraries as well.

And for UI themes, I've noticed that > even if you aren't using Gnome, some

the installed applications might be

using GTK (the Gnome toolkit); there > are a lot of GTK UI themes that will

get applied to those GTK application > but naturally, applications not

usin > GTK won't get that theme. So you'll > have apps with one UI theme and othe > apps with a different UI theme.

Years ago, I used to like Gnome 2, a > when running in Gnome, all applicati

would look consistent with the same

theme. But that doesn't seem to be > case anymore with other desktop environments.

One thing I've noticed is that KDE Plasma uses Qt, which is a cross-platform GUI framework that I' > heard is considered one of the best > most popular (and wxWidgets being
another one). Qt is available for Windows too, so theoretically, a program written using the Qt GUI framework (probably especially with C++) would probably be able to be bu > and run for both Linux and Windows w > few modifications. I've done some C > development using wxWidgets and that > was one of the advantages of wxWidge > as well.

Nightfox

I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. I use Slackware and Gnome seems to be a lot slower.

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Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Lumni1968 to Nightfox on Sun Mar 08 2026 04:29 pm

I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. I use
Slackware and Gnome seems to be a lot
slower.

I like XFCE, though if you have a high-resolution monitor (maybe 1440p or 4K), it seems XFCE's scaling isn't the greatest. I don't think it offers fractional scaling (you could do 2x scaling with it, but then everything could look too big). I gave XFCE a try on my main PC, but I found that Cinnamon looked better, and I think KDE Plasma looks even better. Also, it seems KDE Plasma is able to scale some applications that still looked small & hard to read in Cinnamon, such as Zoom (for online video meetings). At least, it seems that way in my experience.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Nightfox to Lumni1968 on Sun Mar 08 2026 05:18 pm

Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Lumni1968 to Nightfox on Sun M > 08 2026 04:29 pm

I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. > Lu> use
Slackware and Gnome seems to be > Lu> lot
slower.

I like XFCE, though if you have a high-resolution monitor (maybe 1440p > 4K), it seems XFCE's scaling isn't t > greatest. I don't think it offers fractional scaling (you could do 2x scaling with it, but then everything > could look too big). I gave XFCE a > on my main PC, but I found that Cinnamon looked better, and I think > Plasma looks even better. Also, it seems KDE Plasma is able to scale so > applications that still looked small

hard to read in Cinnamon, such as Zo > (for online video meetings). At

lea > it seems that way in my experience.

Nightfox

I keep mine at 2560x1080. It works pretty well. I used to use KDE4, but Iwanted something that ran faster (I'm
still using an I920 at 2.67Ghz and 16GBof ram).

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