Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry

Two of the most popular "traditional" – read Windows-like – desktops happened to land the same version number at once. The overlap is just a coincidence, and the two projects have differing approaches to versioning. Cinnamon is much younger: the project began in 2011, based on GNOME 3.2.1. KDE, on the other hand, is 14 years …

[Doctor Syntax]

I'll just wait for KDE 6 to turn up in Devuan.

[druck]

The Wayland session is not yet feature-complete

I have never seen a mention of Wayland that isn't rapidly followed by "not yet feature-complete".

[Darth.0]

Arch

I use Arch btw.

[Dostoevsky]

Single-click to open...

...is glorious. Long live single-click-to-open!

[Zolko]

Re: Single-click to open...

Me too ... and then I have to use Google Drive, in a browser, and I have to double-click again to open files. Double-click IN A BROWSER !!!!! That's where they invented single-click FFS

[JulieM]

Re: Single-click to open...

Single click to open a file. Move the pointer over a text box to type in it. Left click and drag to highlight, middle click to paste.

What I'd really like, though, is RiscOS-style "right click on a scrollbar arrow to go in the opposite direction". KDE used to have an extra down arrow near the top, which was almost as good, but didn't quite have the elegance of the original.

[danielfgom]

Stark differences in DE

I've used both KDE and now Cinnamon and there is such a stark difference between the two. The biggest is that for me KDE is illegible. I detest the icons inside programs (eg Libre Office) because I cannot understand what they are. The font also seems less easy to read and that blue and white alternating rows when you put files in list view or go into settings and there is a list view, is totally trash - I can never understand what I'm actually selecting. It's awful UI design yet version 6 continues with no improvement.

Cinnamon (and all gnome based DE's) on the other hand are all far more legible. Everything is familiar, fonts are clear, icons are easy to read etc. Far, far more comfortable to use, for me at least. I think this is also why Gnome got the $1 million grant because they are more likely to use it for accessibility and that will trickle down to all gnome-based DE's like Cinnamon, Mate etc

[withQuietEyes]

Re: Stark differences in DE

Base KDE is incredibly ugly, but I keep coming back to it because I can customize it to hell and back from the actual settings, rather than having to do it through config files, and I'm lazy like that. (Although lately it's been crashing on me a lot, so it might be time to look at other ideas.)

[druck]

Re: Stark differences in DE

I think this is also why Gnome got the $1 million grant because they are more likely to use it for accessibility and that will trickle down to all gnome-based DE's like Cinnamon, Mate etc

I'm not sure how much will trickle down from developers of Gnome 4 to those who deliberately use the older (and the older the better) versions of Gnome.