I switched from GNOME 3 a long time ago, and emulating GNOME’s workflow would be the last thing I would want
Top bar, titlebar buttons on the left, “dock” on the right (which is just a panel), hotcorner, …
I don’t really try to replicate GNOME but rather take what improves my flow from Windows, GNOME, Unity, MacOS, …
But that’s the wonderful thing about KDE : you can choose to customize whatever you like however you feel !
I sure did! I came from Gnome 2 and the first thing I did once I started to use KDE5 was emulating the two horizontal panels design!
That counts, right?
Lol sure does if you ask me. I hadn’t even realized until you brought it up, but Gnome 2 was my first ever DE way back when I tried Ubuntu for the first time nearly decades ago. Time sure flies!
Personally, not. The reason I switched to Plasma is that I didn’t like the basic layout – horizontal bar especially – and wanted a desktop environment that allowed me to customize positions and sizes of bars and so on as much as possible, but without having to install “tweaks”.
Still baffles me why many desktop environments steal the screen’s usually scarce vertical real estate with a horizontal bar, instead of putting it on the side…
I’ve used Plasma for a week or so before rebasing back to Silverblue last year.
I tried to keep it natural and not force an alien workflow into KDE too much, but I couldn’t really go back to the classic paradigm.
It was nice to give Plasma a look as it’s a great DE. But in the end I figured I prefer the gnome workflow, so it makes little sense to use another DE for me.
I’ve gone through Gnome 2, Unity, Cinnamon and nowadays tend to favor KDE and honestly, I pretty much always try to replicate a traditional experience no matter which of them I’m using, so pretty much the opposite of what you’re asking, I suppose. I’ll say I did appreciate the top left corner quickly exposing all windows, so that feature I try and replicate whenever possible.
Sure did. Kinda?
Moved the panel to the top, added a dock (rip latte, it’s now just a panel) and set a hot corner for the overview effect. I like it to move windows between desktops.
Everything else is default though. Maybe I changed the application launcher widget, I don’t remember.
Quite the opposite, I left Gnome 3 because I didn’t like the vanilla layout. Ironic as I was firmly Gnome(2) for years and didn’t like early KDE. Went to cinnamon and kde.
Absolutely. I decided to give plasma a try on my desktop and ended up trying to replicate dynamic workspaces, the sane keyboard shortcuts (honestly Plasmas defaults seem to be different just to be different), and use the plasma overview heavily.
Not really. I had just installed Void Linux and wanted to try KDE in its truest form. Aside from the crashes, I enjoyed my experience. Desktop widgets are realllly neat
Yes, I actually really like the Gnome workflow. I set super+spacebar to open the gnome-like overview and use that frequently.
Honestly I’m pretty conflicted about Gnome vs KDE and swap back and forth whenever I distrohop. Gnome is very sleek and I prefer the workflow, but KDE’s default apps have a lot of really nice poweruser features. It’s tempting to do some abomination of Gnome shell with KDE apps to try to have the best of both.
Check out the Maui Desktop Environment Project
Heaven’s no. I take Plasma, Cinnamon, and Mate and get them as close to the XP/Win7 layout as possible. Way too many years of muscle memory… and I’ve never liked bars on the top or the sides.
I kinda did the opposite, I switched from plasma to gnome and the thing that hit me is how similar my pre-existing plasma workflow was to vanilla gnome. Will prob be switching back to Plasma when Plasma 6 comes out
