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As a Gnome user, a expansion of that background apps think that properly replaces Appindicators!
Configurable touchpad gestures on Plasma. And a non-nonsense gesture to open the overview effect (waiting for Plasma 6, already done :)
a better on screen keyboard for gnome
Ability to run Android apps.
WMR support, I would ditch Windows in a heartbeat
CardDAV in the built in contacts app without installing Evolution, just to configure functionality that is there without Evolution. People have been begging for years, and submitted unaccepted code, but Gnome devs are going to Gnome dev.
evolution-data-serveris light enough, you don’t need full Evolution.Yet this supposedly user friendly desktop environment won’t let you use the Online Accounts tool to configure sync using open standards.
GOA uses evolution-data-server, I’m not sure what you want here.
A GUI to configure something so foundational, without having to:
- Install Evolution
- Use a non-free online service that’s covered by the Online Accounts GUI
Cinnamon has this but I wish KDE had it. The ability to right click an application in the task bar and have the option to “move to other monitor.”
wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
Or ext-screencopy-v1 if it gets merged
I just hope GNOME’s developers would stop being so insufferable. Lots of Wayland extensions and FreeDesktop portals unimplemented on GNOME because of the developers’ stubbornness. These also adversely affect to other DEs and WMs and Wayland’s evolution itself because other DEs would have less reasons to support a standard if one of the largest DEs themselves don’t support it.
I really love GNOME because it’s polished, but if KDE would be just as polished I will immediately switch. I know KDE works really hard to make the DE and the apps in general as polished and modern as possible, but I can’t still help but feel better at GNOME.
One example is the color scheming protocol by FreeDesktop. You can now make your apps look greenish or purplish or whatever color you want regardless of the toolkit they’re made with. Right? Well no, because the insufferable GNOME developers keep blocking the proposal because they want the colors to be hardcoded by the DE. They were offered a compromise where a DE can just offer a limited, curated color picker to the user when they go to the theming settings and allow any arbitrary color hidden behind commands, but the insufferable GNOME developers said no. And the proposal, last time I heard, is still stalled because of GNOME.
HDR
bspwm - i do miss alt-tab from time to time.
I know there is a few sxkhd entries that sort of mimics it, but I miss something like gnome or cinnamon alt-tab
KDE: When using multiple monitors, being able to configure their relative position on start up. Right now, it just does who knows what, but they’re out of order. Also, I only need 1 logon screen in total, not one in each monitor…that happen to be out of order anyway.
Also, I only need 1 logon screen in total
Never quite understood this complaint tbh. I use Windows at work and I find the blanked out screens look weirder than just having the login screen everywhere
It’s just slightly confusing because (1) I don’t know what screen the cursor is on, and (2) since they’re out of order, trying to use a specific one is a little confusing.
I wouldn’t care about something showing on all monitors, if it wasn’t that it somehow insists on focusing the wrong monitor altogether. I have a stacked setup (2x23" on top, single 34" UW on the bottom) and it keeps focusing my top right monitor. Right now it just kind of throws its hands in the air and goes “welp, here’s three times the exact same clock and set of inputs, figure it out yourself” and that’s it.
I think this was fixed on Plasma 5.27.x onwards. There was major rewrite of display configuration handling, that fixed these issued for me at least.
I’ve never had this problem. At least not with my Thinkpads (T480 and W540). But I never used the nvidia card on them.
Yep, I’m using an NVidia GPU
I thought this was fixed in the more recent versions by remembering placement based on hardware ID.
This seems a problem for the login manager and kernel framebuffer before plasma/kwin even gets involved.
Ah, I see. I heard SDDM is going to be getting some attention soon so hopefully they can bring it up to speed with the rest of Plasma.
Still waiting for a DE that’s looks and acts like i3/sway but takes care of everything under the hood like monitor config, shortcuts for brightness, volume etc. Essentially everything Gnome or KDE does.
Dunno, KDE Plasma has it all. I would not mind some design improvements, but that is what Plasma 6 will bring. I just need to wait :)
honestly I’d just want a DE that isn’t bugged and has all the basic functionalities. So far I couldn’t even find one.
Did you try KDE?
There were UX bugs though it’s been some time so I don’t remember all of them.
One of them was that when I pressed the windows key and searched for an app sometimes it just wouldn’t react at all, and I had to press it multiple times or use another way to launch an application.
Also the default file manager would often hang up for no apparent reason.
The desktop widgets would change their position every single time I logged in and would even disappear.
Edit: just remembered a hilarious one that took me a lot of time to figure out what was happening. If I had my second display turned on while logging in, the visual scale would always set itself to a ridiculous value like 1% or something and everything would be too small to do anything. I had to turn off the display every time I would log in. Before this I didn’t even know the PC could detect whether a display is turned on or off.
No matter what I set the scale to in display configurations, it would get fucked if I logged in with a second display turned on.
Just use the command line, I dont think youll ever find it.
That’s xfce.
Which functionalities are you missing exactly? I’ve found xfce to be very stable and customizable.
wish I could say for sure but it was like 2 years since I last used xfce.
I think there were some long-standing bugs that the devs said were not their problem
Yeah screw Nvidia
