[HN Gopher] I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
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I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 79 points
Date : 2022-10-31 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.akselmo.dev)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.akselmo.dev)
| johnthescott wrote:
| just a heads up, the links are dead for exploding screen
| snapshots:
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| https://www.akselmo.dev/2022/10/31/assets/images/kde/outline...
| [deleted]
| alex3305 wrote:
| I haven't touched KDE in maybe 15 years. I just always defaulted
| to Gnome when I'm on Linux desktop. But this looks more macOS
| like. Just curious, is there any reason I should try KDE today?
| [deleted]
| slbtty wrote:
| GNOME is being obsoleted by KDE.
| ognarb wrote:
| KDE dev here. From a developer perspective, something I really
| love with Plasma (the 'new' branding for KDE) is that it's
| really modular by design. Everything on the screen is pluggable
| with a very simple api and can theoricaly be be swapped out or
| experimented with. This includes the widgets but also the
| visual effects. For example, Marco (a prominent Plasma hacker)
| just worked on a new basic tilling extension and with a public
| api that allows other to build more advanced tilling scripts:
| https://notmart.org/blog/2022/10/kwin-and-tiling/
|
| From an user point of view, I often try to not change too much
| default settings, but there are some really nice feature I
| enjoy. kde connect is particularly nice for the media player
| integration with my phone). Yakuake is a nice dropdown
| terminal. The wayland port is really smooth, there is a lot of
| features everywhere and I often make use of a big percentage.
|
| Oblivious if you are fine with GNOME, this is also fine. We
| have some different vision on how a open source desktop should
| look and behave but we do share a dream to someday be a good
| replacement for Windows for a large part of the population (not
| nerds).
| ChuckNorris89 wrote:
| _> is there any reason I should try KDE today_
|
| The DE is a personal preference thing. It's nobody's job to
| convince you to try anything.
|
| It's up to you to decide to try it if you're curious.
|
| Since you haven't tried KDE in 15 years, you've probably missed
| a lot.
|
| There are also countless KDE Reviews online and on YouTube.
| warning26 wrote:
| I mean, what do you have to lose? Install it and see how you
| like it!
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| > But what happens if shadows are disabled?
|
| > Something cheeky happens! I actually draw the shadows with 0%
| alpha channel!
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| Does that still pay the performance cost to "draw" them, or does
| it get optimized away?
| sdwvit wrote:
| KDE uses gpu acceleration for its ui. So that should be a
| negligible impact on performance. I am unsure about if you even
| have shadows with CPU rendering.
| tmtvl wrote:
| Using software rendering instead of OpenGL disables most if
| not all effects from what I remember.
| formerly_proven wrote:
| iirc software rendering in kwin disables compositing
| alltogether
| BearOso wrote:
| If you're using a compositor you're paying the cost. The
| rounded corners are antialiased, so blending happens
| regardless.
| thesuitonym wrote:
| Amazing that someone managed to get a feature into KDE that has
| been around since the dawn of graphical environments. Truly an
| incredible feat.
| [deleted]
| ChuckNorris89 wrote:
| KDE getting window borders, Gnome getting thumbnails in the
| file picker, what's going on?
|
| Next you're gonna tell me that Wayland will be usable in the
| next decade.
| Arnavion wrote:
| >Next you're gonna tell me that Wayland will be usable in the
| next decade.
|
| It's already usable today, so I don't see why it would stop
| being usable in 10 years.
| sdwvit wrote:
| As stated by one of the core KDE contributors, they (KDE
| team) want to make KDE appealing for regular users more, thus
| KDE6 work is focused on bugfixing and polishing the UX.
| https://pointieststick.com/2022/10/28/this-week-in-kde-
| next-...
| Gualdrapo wrote:
| This is not new to KDE (there was QtCurve, Aurora...) and
| nowhere it says so, but only new to Breeze.
| jstimpfle wrote:
| While we're at it, Windows 10 suffers the same problem.
| marwis wrote:
| Both Win10 and Win11 will draw outline using accent color if
| you enable "Show accent color on title bars and windows
| borders".
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| There are also tools to configure it further.
| [deleted]
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