gtk3, gtk4 (probably?) qt, qt in flatpak, gtk3 in flatpak, gtk4 in flatpak (probably)… I’m just not fighting it anymore
Meanwhile kde:
i found the original in reddit, from about four years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/tffr4l/some_kde_plasma_uiux_problems/#lightbox
(i’m not saying it’s related, but at least people should be able to read the text now)
Thanks, I updated my post.
All of that and it’s still nicer to look at for me haha.
I feel it has gotten much better in recent years. The first time I tried KDE 5 it looked weird to me. But now I acutally quite like KDE 6. Or maybe I’ve just learned to tolerate it…
Oh for fuck’s sake…
Kde has mostly small padding and alignment issues instead of having a completely random design.
I can live with that.I have a theory that if everything was pixel perfect, centered, perfectly aligned and looked the same, the thing would look too sterile. There’s basically a perfect world, written down in books and texts that is being taught to students and there’s the real world. In many areas, these two do not match and the above image is the result of someone’s text book world view not matching the real world.
Could the discover store have a better UI? Yes. Will a centered, down-anchored, pixel perfect button make it better? Subjective.
At this point I’m just happy if they’re all using a dark theme at least.
sorry for the “venting” post, but i had to laugh as i rearranged my windows
It’s easier to stick to adwaita default and try to uniform others to it (that’s because libadwaita apps are not themable).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications
https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3
https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-app-apply-theme/
And install kvantum for flatpak too.
thanks a lot for the pointers, it’s so nice to see that people try to help
but it is just exhausting trying to unify everything
and the next flatpak is a new fight :)
but it is just exhausting trying to unify everything
I feel you… I hope in the future they’ll work together to unify this mess.
standards.xkcdFreedesktop exists for a reason.
Unfortunately, the issue is more widespread in the world of UI design. Even in closed ecosystems like Windows, you have a random mix of different UI styles, and this cancer called “flat design” makes things even worse. Carl Svensson published a nice blog post about exactly this issue a couple of years ago: https://datagubbe.se/decusab/
I’m very glad to see projects like libadapta as themable alternatives to the libadwaita dogma. I’ve painstakingly themed my desktop to look and feel like a cohesive, modernized NT 4 workstation and should seriously consider contributing to libadapta in anticipation of libadwaita coming to more and more programs.
I am very stubborn about my computer’s GUI, but also hopeful the community can bring back theming where GNOME is dead set against it. If they can make WindowBlinds for modern Windows, the equivalent in Linux is definitely achievable.
All my homies hate libadwaita it’s bad.
A bit off-topic, but I really appreciate projects that respect their upstreams, and attempt to improve in their own ways (from libadapta’s README):
LibAdwaita has the right to be what it wants to be and to not support what it doesn’t want to support.
Oh I am so looking into this.
As someone using a tiling wm idk what these buttons are for.
my condolences
in fact, i removed the top bar from all apps… and i’m on kde btw
Throw a JetBrains app in there for a complete monstrosity 🤣
As a Gnome’r I tend to lean towards apps that I can make look like they belong, but I put up with JetBrains because there tools work really well for my needs
Where tools?
the anti-libadwaita people were right all along.
this from the people that stonewalled server side decorations in wayland
eye twitches
adw-gtk3 contributes a small bit to the consistency of window decorations
We should question gtk maintainers motivation for dropping custom app border support in gtk4
I was under the impression that one could force these to be themed, is that inaccurate? KDE Fedora btw.
They all look great man, congrats
