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by setopt 14 days ago
The point though is that there used to be a «Linux desktop» you could target before the Wayland transition. Fragmentation of an already small market segment is unfortunate.
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chadgpt3 13 days ago
It's KDE now. GNOME is the penguin that went to the mountains while KDE largely tries to be compatible with things that aren't KDE.
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setopt 13 days ago
Sure. I use KDE myself. I actually like the Gnome default UI/UX more, but I'm really not fond of their "our way or the highway" approach when it comes to customization and interoperability. KDE feels more in line with the true FOSS "spirit", and after a bit of customization, fits my needs better than Gnome.
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tuna74 13 days ago
There was not really for system utilities. Apps, sure, but not system utilities.
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setopt 13 days ago
What do you refer to as system utilities? All the stuff now subsumed by SystemD?
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tuna74 13 days ago
Things like input methods, certain accessibility functions, screen savers and similar things.
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MarsIronPI 12 days ago
Huh? Fcitx and IBus both worked on GNOME and KDE as far as I'm aware. Now, Fcitx using QT and IBus using GTK helps them feel more native on KDE and GNOME respectively, but they would both work.
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tuna74 11 days ago
Doesn't seem possible on Gnome and not very straightforward on other DEs according to the arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fcitx5#Integration
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MarsIronPI 10 days ago
It seems to me that the issues on that page are Wayland-specific; anectotally, on my random X window manager works fine with Fcitx (except for Emacs, but that's probably Emacs' fault, not the IME protocol's).
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