• 0xf@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I just avoid gtk. And avoided scaling since I don’t buy monitors with to high resolution for my eyes.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I use scaling to make things smaller on my laptop screen. It’s invariably chrome and electron apps that can’t do scaling. It’s infuriating.

  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    KDE by default doesn’t have a mac style global menu. If the third party extension that provides this looks fancy but doesn’t work perfectly ask the devs to do more free work or roll up your sleeves. In any case its not part of KDE.

    If you use a proper style sheet/dark theme for both QT and GTK and set flatpak to use it you really shouldn’t have any complaints about dark themes save for websites. Trying to make websites all dark themed is a fools errand. You’ll eventually find that some don’t style right if you force it.

    Use integer scaling. Buy devices that are 4K at 24-32 or 1080p at 11-14" you know the most common sizes?

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    When I started to use Linux more than two decades ago, Qt’s license was not considered free software friendly. Because I didn’t want proprietary software, I avoided KDE and Qt applications. I know the situation changed after a few years but it stuck with me.

    Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that the K Desktop Environment was going to become one of the leading desktop environments for Linux. As it was based on Qt, many people in the free software movement worried that an essential piece of one of their major operating systems would be proprietary.

    Plus, it was much easier at that time to have themes and “rice” my desktop using only GTK apps.

    So it’s petty but even to this day, I kept the old habit and still avoid Qt applications.

    • mmmm@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      A few days ago I saw a post on c/opensource@lemmy.ml about “an alternarive to KDE Connect”, and the rationale to wanting “an alternative to KDE Connect” was that it “makes you download a lot of other software that you don’t really need”. Which it’s just the required Qt stuff. imho that’s plain ridiculous.

      Given the high upvote count you can guess people just think about GTK as the default and every other toolkit as “software you don’t really need”.