Oh god, I reinstalled debian a bunch of times friday/saturday.
I ended up on gnome twice, once because I didn’t unmark anything properly, and a second time just to see what the unspecified debian UI would look like.
I disliked/managed to use it before. Now it’s so fucking macified it makes me want to vomit.
Gnome 3 isn’t ‘macified’. They’ve actually thrown away all the good stuff they stole from MacOS in Gnome 2, when they made Gnome 3 with its own blackjack and hookers.
I’m not exactly talking about looking like Macos, I’m talking about how it “feels” more like a rounded corner, hide things away on the edges, overly animated kinda thing. KDE has KRunner which while being like spotlight from Macos, doesn’t feel like it.
It’s a feeling. It’s difficult to precisely explain why it feels like a distasteful experience that I hate.
Guess we pay attention to different things. Idk what’s overly animated about MacOS, at least the last version that I used. The main animation in there is when minimizing an app — which in fact shows where the app is gone, and is helpful for new users. It can be disabled.
just the general communications of it. things on the taskbar bounce sometimes for notifications, when you enter the password wrong the panel shakes, etc etc. I am forced to use one for work, so I don’t spend too much time trying to customise it, I gave it a once over to get rid of most of the annoying things.
At home I’ve gone from Windows (non 11) -> KDE , so things are a lot more “colour change” instead of “animations”
EDIT : oh shit, it’s you! Thanks again for all your contribs in !music@lemmy.world
The bounce thing is great, in my opinion. The app typically bounces three or so times to let me know something happened, then stops and only bounces periodically if there’s an ongoing thing requiring my attention. Iirc this is tied to the notification settings specific to each app, so is happening only with apps that I want to notify me.
I’ve actually made my own app using this bouncing mechanic: a timer that shows the remaining time in the badge on the dock icon, and bounces continually once the time is up. It’s launched via the command line, or rather via the Alfred launcher by banging out a command like ‘timer 3m’. There’s no other interface. Took about 200 lines in a single Swift file. I’m gonna have to make something analogous for Linux once I find a decent alternative to Alfred.
I was trying to fix a problem by starting from scratch. I was not going to take changes by uninstalling gnome to reinstall KDE and deal with any bits left over.
Oh god, I reinstalled debian a bunch of times friday/saturday.
I ended up on gnome twice, once because I didn’t unmark anything properly, and a second time just to see what the unspecified debian UI would look like.
I disliked/managed to use it before. Now it’s so fucking macified it makes me want to vomit.
Gnome 3 isn’t ‘macified’. They’ve actually thrown away all the good stuff they stole from MacOS in Gnome 2, when they made Gnome 3 with its own blackjack and hookers.
I’m not exactly talking about looking like Macos, I’m talking about how it “feels” more like a rounded corner, hide things away on the edges, overly animated kinda thing. KDE has KRunner which while being like spotlight from Macos, doesn’t feel like it.
It’s a feeling. It’s difficult to precisely explain why it feels like a distasteful experience that I hate.
Guess we pay attention to different things. Idk what’s overly animated about MacOS, at least the last version that I used. The main animation in there is when minimizing an app — which in fact shows where the app is gone, and is helpful for new users. It can be disabled.
just the general communications of it. things on the taskbar bounce sometimes for notifications, when you enter the password wrong the panel shakes, etc etc. I am forced to use one for work, so I don’t spend too much time trying to customise it, I gave it a once over to get rid of most of the annoying things.
At home I’ve gone from Windows (non 11) -> KDE , so things are a lot more “colour change” instead of “animations”
EDIT : oh shit, it’s you! Thanks again for all your contribs in !music@lemmy.world
The bounce thing is great, in my opinion. The app typically bounces three or so times to let me know something happened, then stops and only bounces periodically if there’s an ongoing thing requiring my attention. Iirc this is tied to the notification settings specific to each app, so is happening only with apps that I want to notify me.
I’ve actually made my own app using this bouncing mechanic: a timer that shows the remaining time in the badge on the dock icon, and bounces continually once the time is up. It’s launched via the command line, or rather via the Alfred launcher by banging out a command like ‘timer 3m’. There’s no other interface. Took about 200 lines in a single Swift file. I’m gonna have to make something analogous for Linux once I find a decent alternative to Alfred.
You know you don’t have to reinstall the OS just to change desktop environment, right?
I was trying to fix a problem by starting from scratch. I was not going to take changes by uninstalling gnome to reinstall KDE and deal with any bits left over.