Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

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On 1/2/25 20:06, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2025-01-02 14:42, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 08:36:41 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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I find GNOME rather clunky whereas KDE, at least on Fedora and Nobara,
is perfect out of the box. I imagine that a lot of people who try out
Linux and face GNOME are going to wonder how to do the basics, and they
will likely find that the way extensions work is rather clunky,
especially during upgrades. Meanwhile, KDE is very familiar and offers a
ton of features they could only dream of in Windows like the desktop
effects, theming options and widgets. Unlike Cinnamon too, the widgets
in KDE actually work as they should.

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The Ubuntu box has GNOME. I live with it but I'm not a fan. I'd rather
have a menu structure rather than the 'Show Applications' button that
brings up three or four screens of unsorted stuff.

 
GNOME was designed with the belief that anyone looking for an
application will press the Windows key and then type the name of what
they're looking for rather than select it from a menu. That's how I do
it whether I use Windows, GNOME or KDE so I would agree with their
design choice.

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I agree. I started using Gnome in 2014, it changed the way I use MS
Windows. Menus tend to be arbitrary, very difficult to find stuff. A
short task bar of frequently used apps and text search for other stuff
is much better.

I like Fluxbox; you can extend it's built-in menus with easy to grok
text files. And you can tear off a sub-menu, leaving it floating on the
desktop for easy access.

But for running apps I use the command line or create some hotkeys
using xbindkeys and the fluxbox keys file.

Also helpful are cdargs and GNU readline.

THere are other tools, such as dmenu, that I don't use.

    https://www.sglavoie.com/posts/2019/11/10/using-dmenu-to-optimize-common-tasks/

    dmenu is one of those tools that look a little unimpressive at first but
    can accomplish so much! It’s a program that you can use to receive any
    output redirected from other programs (through pipes in the terminal, the
    symbol |) and treat that output so that it can pop up within a simple menu
    to make it available for execution. If you want to know more about other
    fantastic tools from suckless.org, I went over some of them before, such as
    the st terminal and slock, a dead simple screen locker.

But obviously many users will simply use the desktop-provided options.

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