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> Have you tried KDE recently? I ditched it entirely during the KDE 3 fiasco.
Been on Gnome/Ubuntu ever since. But I have tried it now and again, and found that while it's much better than KDE 3, it's still a poor experience out of the box, for me. Or at least, Kubuntu is. It's OK, but not "Good". For me, the tell-tale is that when my immediate thought is "hmm, maybe I can configure this", something is not right (for me). With Gnome, sometimes I have this (e.g. Gnome Console which has IMO insane default window sizes).
Personally, I think this should never be a setting. Just Good defaults, maybe through heuristics (last size after resize? fullscreen? x% of screen size?).
With KDE I have this all the time. Literally every app that I opened, be it the PDF reader, or the document Scanner, do I immediately go "Something feels off, maybe I must change some settings?" and the answer almost always is in those settings. I'm not demanding. On contrary, I prefer others with more expertise (of console sizes, PDF displaying, Scanner UI) to make decisions for me, so that I can focus on what I do best instead. I understand that there's a need for highly configurable software. That my preference of getting force-fed strong opinions is not for everyone. I really do. But I'm using KDE here as an example of what "configuritis" can lead to. |
It appears to me it's not the fact that KDE is configurable that you dislike, but the design and default configuration choices or the bugs. Or its differences with what you are used to.
I 100% agree with you that the desktop environment should come with good defaults and you shouldn't need to mess with the settings. Life is too short for pointless configuration.
But you are not actually pointing to anything specific so it would be hard to discuss in details or (dis)agree. Not that it's actually an issue, of course. But we can't take any particular insight from your comments other than "this person doesn't like KDE for some reason". If you pointed us at some actual dumb defaults that you shouldn't need to configure but need to, we could actually get your point. The only example you gave is for Gnome, actually. I don't remember struggling with the terminal size on Gnome but then again, I pretty much always maximize all my windows or put them on a side of the screen with a keyboard shortcut, and use tabs so I don't actually create a new terminal window too often.