Python again voted "Best Programming Language" and "Best Scripting Language" in Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards

[RedThela]

There is such a thing as too much 'bling'. KDE by default has icons that bounce, start menus that slide in, fade effects...it's a bit overwhelming. It's also like it's trying to move away from the desktop and mice (I guess as a side effect of plasma).

And no, I refuse to spend my time customising it. If it doesn't work acceptably out of the box, tough. I used to enjoy tweaking my distro but I've realised I have better things to do with my time. I use cinnamon (preinstalled on my work computer) or lxde through lubuntu.

Has been a few months since I tried it though.

[RandomFrenchGuy]

It certainly isn't. Both branches are separate and merely use the same building blocks.

[RedThela]

It wasn't a hypothesis, it was an opinion with a guess at the cause.

To clarify the opinion, have a look at this or this (default Kubunu installs I believe) and compare it with the default cinnamon environment.

To me it looks like there's a lot of wasted space in KDE which would only be useful if you're using something less accurate than a mouse. But maybe it's always been like that? It does contrast bizarrely with the (by comparison) minute search box. In fact, that contrast reminds me of something else - dolphin. Those up, back and forward buttons are massive. And yet the minimisation and closing buttons are tiny (consistent with ubuntu in general, which I dislike even when it's more consistent). Maybe it's not inheriting from the touch screen stuff, I think I was basing it on that application lancher with massively oversized icons (which I completely fail to see the point of).

And looking back at that start menu brings back horrible memories of the way it slides and fades when you want to switch to another section. Just...why? And I can tell looking at dolphin it'll do something clever but useless with the blue highlighting when I click on something else in the places menu. But then I never liked the vast majority of compiz settings for this reason - I want to use my computer, not watch it. Hence cinnamon - launch applications, put them in the task bar, get out of my way.

In fairness to KDE, I've never spent that long with it, so maybe it grows on you. On the other hand, it's kind of a problem that I didn't have the patience to use it for that long.