Some random dude who likes turtles and minecraft.
It’s actually when they mention the Lemmy community. Mastodon users seem to get confused which accounts are Lemmy accounts vs which accounts are Mastodon.
The name being the same causes the confusion, but is not the reason for the post coming to Lemmy.
Do you know why there’s KDE, XFCE and others? Because there’s also a lot of people who dislike GNOME.
If we are getting pedantic here, the above quote is clearly implying that alternatives exist and are actively developed because people dislike GNOME. Your statement does not take in to account the possibility that people just like the other alternatives, and may still like GNOME as well, or feel indifference towards it.
No one is claiming that GNOME has the superior desktop experience. Rather, GNOME has a more opinionated experience, that suits some people, and not others. For some people, it will be superior. For others, they will prefer KDE, XFCE etc.
Umm well akshually 🤓👆: KDE doesn’t exist because people don’t like GNOME lol. GNOME was made because KDE uses QT, which used to be proprietary.
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Ha yeah sure. Haven’t used Gnome in over 3 years, daily drive KDE. Just happen to not be 12.
This is honestly really sad. I really don’t get the hostility towards Gnome and it’s devs.
Gnome is certainly quite opinionated, and isn’t to everyone’s tastes, but this doesn’t make it ok for memes like this (a pretty shit meme regardless).
Gnome has done a lot for the linux ecosystem, and Gnome developers don’t owe you anything.
Grow up.
Alright, I’ll look into this. Thank you.
I have the plasma browser integration. It adds an item to “Share” in the context menu (for use with KDEconnect etc) and integrates Firefox with the media player.
Just tried it. Same colour picker as Firefox unfortunately.
The color type form input. It’s a HTML standard, all modern browsers have it.
Not really. I just like tinkering, and customising things, and I wanted to see if I could.
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No… I am starting to understand why you have been saying the things you have. You are actually thinking they are the same program.
They very much are not. KDE wrote their own. Just happens to look the same. KDE’s uses QT, Microsoft would use Window’s native toolkit.
They are not the same colour picker.
Hang on… you don’t think they are literally the same program right?
The KDE colour picker is a different program that just looks like the Windows one. KDE’s colour picker isn’t “16 bit”.
It pops up whenever a KDE application offers colour selection. Easiest way is probably to open settings to Appearance > Colors and click the Custom button.
Falkon also uses it with input type=color which is why the screenshot says Falkon in it.
Hmm, it appears it already is set to true. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to work.
No. The purpose of Linux is to provide a free and open source operating system, that can be customised by yourself and the community to your liking.
I like KDE’s colour picker. It seems I would like the Windows one as well. It’s a good design. Linux doesn’t exist to be contrary, it exists to be a customisable, open experience.
But why would I go to Windows, if KDE has the same colour picker? Literally an argument for me staying is that the colour picker is identical, so not worth switching for the colour picker (which I really don’t care about when it comes to choosing a desktop).
All I wanted was to see if anyone knew of a way to allow Firefox to use my desktop environment’s colour picker. I don’t care if the design is “stolen” from Windows, and I doubt Microsoft cares either. You really have picked a very obscure, and rather stupid hill to die on.
Sorry for being harsh, I’m just frustrated that the discussion here is about KDE’s colour picker design, and not about customising Firefox, which is what I asked about.
My dad got me a Linux laptop as a kid (I was 10 I think?), and I am so grateful that he did.
To be fair, I already had a huge passion for computing, and it meant that I would constantly toy around with Linux, breaking things and learning how to fix them.
I have been a Linux user ever since, and I feel have learnt so much about computing because of it.
(I started on Ubuntu 12.04, with the glorious Unity desktop)