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Running Plasma instead of Gnome for the first time in years (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Trying Plasma for a bit to see how green the grass is as a longtime Gnome user. The last time I ran Plasma on my main desktop was version 5.11, I think? It's been a while...

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[–] [S] 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

Ironically most of my customization so far has been to make it more like Gnome lmao

Still trying to figure out how to make workspaces/virtual desktops more...usable.

Overall though it's amazing how solid Plasma is now, it sure as hell isn't the buggy mess it used to be in the earlier Plasma 5 days.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    For me, i made it so pressing Super+ switches to that workspace.

    Super+Tab to toggle overview (Super+W by default)

    And a hot corner, which is set to trigger almost instantly, to toggle overview.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I remapped my side mouse buttons to switching workspaces, and I absolutely love it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yea I did something similar on GNOME I mapped one of my mouse side buttons to be META and that way I could use it to access the overview and applications aswell as using side button + scroll wheel to switch workspaces.

    I love it so much I have implemented the same functionality In cosmic and would do the same in KDE.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Same here with the Super+ to switch (or equivalent function key if you use that binding for something else), and similarly Super+Shift+ to send the current window to that respective workspace. For me, without the second one workspaces are waayy less productive.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same. I have to use windows for work, and the virtual desktops are just mediocre at best to use.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Man, the Windows implementation of virtual desktops is beyond useless to me to the point of exponential loss of productivity. That's probably my fault for thinking it's the same use case as workspace switching in Unix--it's really more like KDE's Desktop Sessions feature, which is nice, but not really useful for my case.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    I'm a regular Gnome user. I love KDE's activities. I don't know if it's still required, but Latte dock made it so that you had a nice dock with clean animations, dropping and adding your preferred shortcuts for whatever activity you're currently on.

    I generally had three activities, work, general, and play. switch to work, and it looks like all I do on this computer is work. professional look and feel, all the relevant applications available in a clean autohide dock. switch to play, and it's some sick background from anime or a game I'm currently into. Steam, Discord, Heroic, and various preferred games are the only visible icons on the dock. it's really a pleasure to use.

    my problem is that when in Plasma, I miss Gnome's overview, though, and whenever I switch back to Gnome, it just feels homey, functional, and straight to the point. Sure, I lose some customizations, but I gain in simplicity. Overall, that itself is a big customization choice - whether to use Gnome, KDE, or something else. ..so I don't regret Gnome's lack of customizability, that's just Gnome fulfilling is niche well. But Plasma is always a close second for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I just installed a global theme to make it look like macOS πŸ˜„ loving it, have now a old unsupported macBookPro (2013) running latest macOS bootleg on latest Linux kernel πŸ˜†

    Love it!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Still trying to figure out how to make workspaces/virtual desktops more...usable

    That's a thing about gnome. The multiple desktops are great and easy to switch between. Especially on a laptop you can easily switch between them with the trackpad, or if you have, by using the touchscreen.

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