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by giancarlostoro 929 days ago
I would rather they just use KDE and make a nice skin that has a similar scheme to Apples. KDE looks sleek on its own, and then make keybindings as close to Apples as possible. Heck, KDE3 used to have a wizard that asked if you were more accustomed to Mac, Windows or Linux, and set your key bindings that way.

You can get insanely close with KDE, and KDE apps all follow a standard UI approach and the theming will transfer over. I'm pretty much convinced that the best DE is KDE for something full feature. If I had an OS with only the apps made for their respective Desktop Environments, KDE would be the winner for me, everything from games to code editors, browser(s?), and what have you.

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The main thing I miss whenever I try yet-another mac-like skin is keybindings that actually work. I have decadeS of muscle memory, so when keyboard binding are different, I instantly bail. Now I understand why that's hard (this is all implemented individually by each app), but it's a non-starter without this.
It depends on how the app implements some event handlers, but yes you're correct, not all apps might honor the keybinding configuration. I think all KDE apps do.
Konto goes a long way in my experience: https://kinto.sh/
Alas, it doesn't currently work with Wayland (it's in one of the 294 issues).