• Ann Archy@lemmy.world
    1·
    54 minutes ago

    When you have a great product, like say a fork, there is only so much you can improve, apart from keeping it clean and not rust, to justify your job.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    6 hours ago

    gnome was horrible to use, even simplest things that make life easier were missing. fucking TRAY ICONS so you can more easily access some running programs?!

    made me feel like its system for bunch of elitist that can act snooty when scrubs like me cant handle their minimalist perfection.

      • reksas@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        3 hours ago

        i dont understand who likes to use gnome, its just plain awful and even if you customize it there is always a chance update breaks some crucial part of your ui

        • lps2@lemmy.ml
          21·
          3 hours ago

          Ehh, I loved Gnome with the bottom panel hidden and tiling manager installed via gnome shell extensions. KDE just feels like it hasn’t substantially changed in ~15 years and just feels dated and like a halfway attempt at recreating Aero. I’ve moved over to Cosmic and I yearn for my gnome days but it’s getting better with each release.

  • Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    9 hours ago

    Haha I’m so glad I’m not the only one who fucks up his hand doing this for no reason, one of the best things about transitioning to Linux

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 hours ago

      I use KDE, but Cinnamon is what Gnome should have been. Cinnamon has just enough customization to make a person happy but it’s not so overwhelming a KDE can be for beginners.

      I do have high hopes for COSMIC after a few more iterations. They have something good cookin’ there.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    15 hours ago

    Kde’s mouse growing big is actually useful though.

    Ever lose your mouse? Just a wiggle- which is an action I take anyway to find it- and it gets easier to find, for a moment.

    Lets me make the mouse tiny.

    • HouseWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      56 minutes ago

      KDE - We added a neat accessibility feature.

      Gnome - THIS GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR AND ANYONE ASKING FOR IT SHOULD FEEL BAD!

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      47·
      13 hours ago

      Yes, and the low-resolution pointer when you do this excessively is just unacceptable. I’m glad they’re finally addressing this pressing concern.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        13 hours ago

        The just added a high res image or whatever rather than scaling it up. Someone probably fixed it in their spare time.

          • programmerlexi@sh.itjust.works
            8·
            11 hours ago

            Because it uses the XCursor format, which is a quite old standard. Getting apps to switch to a newer standard that has vector graphics is already hard enough. Getting them to do so without burning your GPU is basically impossible.

          • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
            8·
            12 hours ago

            You have to re-render vector graphics when you zoom in. Otherwise they have the same pixels stored in memory as when they were first opened.

            You are always viewing a bitmap image because you have a bitmap display and it makes sense they don’t load a full size cursor into memory to get rendered.

            I’d be curious as to if they’ve rendered a full size image to sit in memory, or re-render the vector image directly as it grows.

            Given the way games work re-rendering would be trivial for any computer running KDE so I’d take that bet.

          • SystemDisc@feddit.orgEnglish
            5·
            12 hours ago

            I would assume they replaced it with an SVG that is rasterized on demand instead of a very high resolution rasterized image.

            In terms of coding effort, just replacing a PNG is the easiest, but it’s also the least correct solution, imo.

            • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              8 hours ago

              I went and read the commit descriptions.

              Previously it was using whatever cursor the theme had loaded and just scaled it up. Now it references the full set of resources for the theme and picks the appropriate one for the size.

              So they went with the most correct third option: defer to the standard set by a more authoritative source. :)

  • McGuirk808@lemmy.world
    67·
    16 hours ago

    I don’t need this feature even a little bit.

    In lieu of this, I have consistently used this feature at least twice a week ever since I found it by accident. It adds a little joy to my day.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      211·
      16 hours ago

      I think it’s more “I found a thing that’s technically wrong and fixed it” and that shit pays dividends down the road when technology changes and people forget this was ever an issue. They solved it now so they don’t have to solve it later.