[Colchester] KDE and desktop managers

[Wayland Sothcott]

The look of Linux has improved over the years but I'm still not totally 
happy. I'm just not obsessed enough to try and improve it.
One of the problems with changing the look is it can adversely affect 
operation. Something as simple as a text box neing too small for the 
font can be ruinous.
Perhaps when we meet we should show off our cool looking and functional 
desktops.

I use Mint Mate' and Mint Cinnamon. They are both good but not sublime.

On 25/08/2019 20:20, Martyn via Colchester wrote:
>
> KDE Plasma has improved the standard immensely since then.
>
> The resource footprint is a lot smaller (among the best for a major 
> DE) and the eye candy so configurable you can make it look like almost 
> anything you want.
>
> Make KDE look like a tiling window manager 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RJr6oTHydU>
>
> Make KDE look like Unity <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBMn6eGH88>
>
> Make KDE look like MacOS <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RQfYNbh6U>
>
> Make KDE look like Pantheon <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOXIyRJfMhc>
>
> Make KDE look like Windows 10 (Yeuch) 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5SQ_yURJ8I>
>
> Just a few things easily found on yoochoob.
>
> Perhaps because I just know after all these years how to do and fix 
> stuff with KDE/Plasma I don't really try anything else.
> Gnome just looks and feels awful.
> Tiling managers never worked for me in that I don't see the benefit.
> And Win10? Well let's leave it there shall we. LOL
>
>
> On 25/08/2019 20:06, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote:
>> I remember KDE from Mandrake.
>> Has a good set of office tools and a browser.
>>
>> So are you a website developer?
>>
>> On 25/08/2019 19:48, Martyn via Colchester wrote:
>>>
>>> Still living in Walton-on-the-naze.
>>>
>>> Changed distro from Mint (They dropped KDE) to Opensuse and loving it.
>>>
>>> Playing with mamnjaro  since I already have experience with Arch and 
>>> finding it glitchy.
>>>
>>> No intentions of moving just yet. 8)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25/08/2019 16:49, Jai Jordan via Colchester wrote:
>>>> How many of us are still living in Colchester?
>>>>
>>>> I moved to London for work and now to Romford.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, 16:39 Wayland Sothcott via Colchester, 
>>>> <colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk 
>>>> <mailto:colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     ....http://www.colchester.lug.org.uk/
>>>>
>>>>     Same old website:
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.colchester.lug.org.uk/
>>>>
>>>>     Any web designers feel they can handle an FTP account?
>>>>
>>>>     We've got PHP7 and MariaDB so WordPress or Joomla are options.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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