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Gnome developers in a nutshell (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So, here's a thought. Instead of removing customization, people just, you know, not customize things. It's like going into the Settings page, except instead of doing that, you don't do that.

Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You underestimate my power, I see a Settings menu, and instantly enter a fugue state, 30 minutes pass and I suddenly come back to myself, my desktop environment looks entirely different, the windows are wobbly, and GTK window theming is broken.

I need help

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here's my complete KDE post-install configuration procedure: go into Settings, search for "Numlock" and change it to "on at boot". It used to include changing Single Click - selects files, but that's the default now, as natural law would demand.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is still overly complicated. Gnome is simple, stable and mostly unchanging. If also can force settings with dconf.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would posit to you that it is, in fact, the perfect amount of complicated. If I want to change something, I don't have to program and/or install an extension that will get blown up on the next release of the desktop environment because of the lack of fucks that Gnome gives for people that build extensions for it.

I will concede that it would nice to have dconf. But considering the amount of stuff that can be configured in stock Plasma, that might take a lot more than the 3 settings that Gnome allows you to change.

[–] possiblylinux127 0 points 3 months ago

You shouldn't be using gnome if you are wanting to make major changes. That's the whole point. If you like to tweak things and customize KDE is great and I respect that. However, not everyone wants that especially not on a machine that is for work.