Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Nightfox to Dr. What on Thu Feb 05 2026 01:37 pm
> Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
> By: Dr. What to poindexter FORTRAN > Thu Feb 05 2026 06:55 am
>
> DW> There's a new term now: "Getti > DW> Gnomed".
>
> DW> It's when you install one
> DW> application but it "needs" near > DW> all the Gnome environment loade >
DW> to run, whether you use Gnome o > DW> not.
>
> Yeah, I've noticed some Linux distro > have packages for Gnome support
> libraries. There are also KDE suppor > libraries as well.
>
> And for UI themes, I've noticed that > even if you aren't using Gnome, some >
the installed applications might be
> using GTK (the Gnome toolkit); there > are a lot of GTK UI themes that will >
get applied to those GTK application > but naturally, applications not usin > G
TK won't get that theme. So you'll > have apps with one UI theme and othe > app
s with a different UI theme.
>
> Years ago, I used to like Gnome 2, a > when running in Gnome, all applicati >
would look consistent with the same
> theme. But that doesn't seem to be > case anymore with other desktop
> environments.
>
> One thing I've noticed is that KDE
> Plasma uses Qt, which is a
> cross-platform GUI framework that I' > heard is considered one of the best >
most popular (and wxWidgets being
> another one). Qt is available for
> Windows too, so theoretically, a
> program written using the Qt GUI
> framework (probably especially with
> C++) would probably be able to be bu > and run for both Linux and Windows w >
few modifications. I've done some C > development using wxWidgets and that > w
as one of the advantages of wxWidge > as well.
>
> Nightfox
I prefer XFCE4 to KDE or Gnome. I use
Slackware and Gnome seems to be a lot
slower.
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