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So, why should GNOME support server side decorations? (blister.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57302675

an article explaining why GNOME should support SSD, but also arguing against the reasons often given for why they shouldn't

If someone could repost this to r/GNOME I would appreciate it, since I don't have a reddit account.

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[–] 13 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

The less options, the better for a new person to jump in. Modern Gnome is a DE I can recommend everyone. ‘It’s like Mac but simpler,’ I advertise it. I like it even as a pro user, though. But even if we, the pro users, couldn’t work with it, that’s okay. Many pro users hate modern Gnome, and use other environments. But having one with limited options and an opinionated design hurts nobody, and helps a lot. I can install it for an elderly parent or a friend, and they can use it without much assistance, as it’s not very far from their tablet or smartphone.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'd say KDE Plasma 6 with one of the one-button global theme modifications can do everything you're promising, while resulting in a simpler and more familiar layout.
    More options help everyone, whether they use them or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    My perception of Plasma is that’s too complex, even for me. While Gnome’s logic is very different, it’s not difficult to grasp, to be effective with it.

    Anyway, if we’d go with the theme. Are there some you’d like to recommend? I’m still balancing between going with Gnome and teaching them it, and just going with the Plasma and making it similar to what they had.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Default plasma is by far simpler then gnome to anyone that's used any windows anything for the last 30 years.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    What you meant is not simple, but rather familiar. While I agree, my mother used Windows for many years, but she forgot that experience partially, due to using iPad for like 15 years. So, Gnome is simpler for her, as it’s similar to her most recent experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    There are some very convincing Windows themes. Gnome, too. There are a couple to make it look exactly like the IRIX theme, or CDE.
    Personally, I think the default layout is plenty simple. You press the applications icon, you press on the thing you want, that thing opens.
    If you can take twenty seconds to set it up for them, run everything they'll ever want to run, right-click on it in the task bar, click Pin to Task Manager.
    Then all they'll ever need to do is poke the one they want to run and it runs.
    KDE also has a Mobile DE called Plasma Mobile. Looks like it can be installed on desktops and laptops too.

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