your KDE (screenshots)

[Schwarzer Kater]

Thank you. There was really not much time necessary to do this…
Oh - it also was in the late 90s when I started experimenting with S.u.S.E. and Yellow Dog Linux.
Until KDE Plasma 5 was released (about 10 years ago?) I had preferred GNOME 2 for my private computers - alongside Mac OS X.
Since Plasma 5 came out Linux has become my main OS - Windows has never been my primary system, not from Windows 3 till 11, but I always had to have something to do with it.

In the meantime I centered the left dock, I think it looks better this way (although more "normal") - that's the way I also have set it up in Debian and Kubuntu.
I don't use any transparency or blur in openSUSE, because in my opinion those do not work well with Solarized Light :

[MoonRise]

Love that choice of wallpaper there!

[Schwarzer Kater]

If you like to look at wallpapers, here is my "main" OS (still with Latte Dock and I still like Breeze ):

[NoWorries]

For Wallpapers, I take a different approach. What I do is collect photos that I have taken or borrowed and put them in a Wallpaper file and then "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper" to access this file and change the images in the file, say every 15 minutes. As I have an external monitor as well, I have another wallpaper file to access. An example of the images in one of my wallpaper files is attached.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Nice photos! Most of them look like I would enjoy living there (if a good internet connection is provided ).

[Schwarzer Kater]

After the update to Plasma 5.27.x for Kubuntu 22.04 LTS from the Kubuntu Backports Extra PPA unfortunately some little annoyances with Latte Dock increased (Latte Dock is still at version 0.10.8 for 22.04 and there is no chance to update it, because of the newer versions' dependencies).

So with some regret I decided to get rid of Latte Dock - at least in Kubuntu 22.04. I still happily use it in Debian 12 and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Today I had some spare time and tried to recreate my usual desktop layout with onboard Plasma tools - the update to Plasma 5.27.x does make it possible to have more or less decent floating panels now.
I also used the "new" Thermal Monitor plug-in for my top panel.

I am still not quite sure about the outcome.
There is a lot of eye-candy (and some of the eye-candy also has a functional aspect…) that is missing now.
You cannot see this on the screenshots, but examples are: missing shadows, fixed gaps, the "defloating" of a panel when you maximise a window in Plasma is a bit "meh", there is no parabolic effect at all in the mimicked dock, of course, and the indicators in the Plasma panel "dock" are also a bit, well, "inferior" (and there are no good Plasma plug-in for those things yet).
Enough of the ranting - I guess I will eventually get used to it - one day…




The terminal font is Fira Code, btw.

[Snowhog]

Enough of the ranting - I guess I will eventually get used to it - one day…

You can't live in the past .... forever.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Well, one can try…

No - you are right of course!

[Snowhog]

No - you are right of course!

Remember the dyed in the wool KDE 3 people? Do they still exist?

[Schwarzer Kater]

No, I don't - sorry.
I think at this time I was using either Yellow Dog Linux or SuSE Linux with GNOME 2 and my main OS was Mac OS X.

[cookiemuncher]

Kubuntu 24.04 on top, Windows and Kubuntu 23.10 below. Thanks to Ubuntustudio and other grub menus.

[kc1di]

My winter 2023/24 screen shot.

[Schwarzer Kater]

I can feel the snow on my clothes…

[Montmorency]

I was thinking the same, I got chills looking at the pic .

[oshunluvr]

My latest desktop...

I had to resize it from 7860 to 4600 to post it, lol