Plasma 6 looks to be shaping up quite nicely already! Some really nice quality of life style updates, and I’m quite shocked (though the reasoning makes sense) to see them moving to double-click actions by default instead of single-click.
Single-click makes a lot more sense to my parents. They’re using either a browser or a smartphone all day long, so it was only when they left their browser on their desktops that they suddenly entered the world of double-clicks.
But yeah, I do get it. Most new users come from Windows, macOS or other DEs, where double-click is the default, as archaic as that may be.
Oh for sure! I remember for the longest time setting the action to double-click when I first started using KDE, because I’d go to try to select a folder to say drag it elsewhere, and I’d end up opening the folder (or opening a file - which would hurt with opening a large archive for example).
Eventually I got used to it though, to the point where I’d be on GNOME or Windows and would get briefly confused when I’d single-click something, and nothing happened. Nowadays though I’m used to the “context switch” of “Oh, I’m in KDE - I need to single-click” and it happens automatically. I wonder how long it’ll take me to break that habit haha (I know it will still be toggle-able, but I’ll forget every time I setup a new install).
Quick question, has the relation between KDE (the organization) and Qt company improved? I remember reading about the tension regarding Qt 6 that will be available under different term such as waiting time for non paying license holder to use latest release.
For reference https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html
Ah this is one of those subjects that I’m just not too familiar with myself. As far as I understood it, KDE has a license granted to them by the Qt Foundation which should allow them to continue/press on but admittedly I’ve not looked into it too much myself unfortunately.
It is the custom of the majority, it is to give utility to the other buttons
- Middle mouse button - click to select.
- Left mouse button - click to open
- Right mouse button - click for context
I don’t like the changes, the fact a dock is becoming the default in Plasma feels wholly antithetical to whole reason I gravitated to it in the first place over Gnome - the classic desktop experience. I don’t care that every other OS and UI is doing it nowadays and that it’s becoming the new default for many, I spent 3-years chained to a MacBook and after that mess of an experience I really just abhore the very concept of the dock.
The switch from checkboxes to skeumorphic toggle-switches is also irksome, to me they’re ugly and impractial, it doesn’t make sense to switch out checkboxes for 'em; it’s a totally frivelous change.
A new default I personally would love to see is for Plasma to adopt Inter as the default font, Noto’s just not a pleasent-looking typeface.
