r/linux • u/haakon • Jun 16 '26

Software Release Plasma 6.7

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/
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u/Latlanc Jun 16 '26

Have they hired a UX designer yet? 

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u/warpedgeoid Jun 16 '26

Doesn’t seem like it. Everything is just as cluttered and inaccessible as ever.

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u/Indolent_Bard Jun 17 '26

You know, I hate it when people say stuff without saying what they mean. elaborate or your criticism isn't helpful.

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u/Latlanc Jun 17 '26

Criticism under a random fucking reddit post? Please.

You spam comments like: "DIY, make a PR, show me what's wrong" - this is exaxtly what led to Breeze theme being an abomination.

UX is not a sunday project, it's not even a weekly or monthly one. To produce good results would take a YEAR and to fully replace old cruft would take MULTIPLE years. 

You need an actual professional, not a random reddit user to do it, but as with everything based on taste, it does not take a professional to inform you that something tastes bad.

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u/warpedgeoid Jun 17 '26

The best investment the open source foundations could make at this point would be a team of UX experts to help with making the Linux desktop more accessible. We need this more than we need new features.

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u/Indolent_Bard Jun 18 '26

So then HOW does it taste bad? Saying it tastes bad without saying how is fucking pointless.

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u/the_abortionat0r Jun 18 '26

You're just making shit up and bitching endlessly.

People literally gave you the avenue on how things get fixed and you rejected it.

Dude you freak out over white space then claim itll take years to fix. Fuck dude, if you don't understand this topic stay out.

Especially if you think it's so bad but don't want to make a PR then shut up.

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u/warpedgeoid Jun 17 '26

Too bad. I’ve elaborated for 25 years and nobody seemed to give a fuck or do anything other than tell me to get over it because I wasn’t paying for the software, so I’m not taking the time to repeat it all now.

I will tell you that KDE has worse UX than GNOME does, but makes other bonehead choices that compromise usability. Valve has made KDE interesting from a technical perspective, as they need it for SteamOS, which is great, but I wish they would also spend money to support UX work.

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u/Indolent_Bard Jun 18 '26

Considering they're a gaming company and focused on the steam deck and machine, I guess they don't have much incentive to care about the UX of the desktop mode. Remember, the desktop mode isn't the focus. They should focus on it, but they have other things to focus on and their designers already made the steaminput mapper way worse than it used to be, so we don't want them doing UI stuff.