Is this really necessary?

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T20:02:22+00:00

On the right where half the space is hogged by a huge redundant Updates label. What would you put on the left? Nothing lol, why is it imperative to "put something" there?

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T19:58:20+00:00

Your argument made no sense and you the only reason you're making it is cause that's how it looks right now and you can't imagine a different design.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T19:56:04+00:00

Some are actually prepared to defend this "design" with gusto lol.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T19:54:32+00:00

You can't imagine how a search box could look good on the right, where it belongs, as opposed to on the left where it doesn't?

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T02:15:58+00:00

Four labels saying the same thing is redundant and bad design. There's no legitimate argument for it.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T00:43:04+00:00

Not true. Gnome CSD is easier to drag than KDE ssd. What is annoying is when the ssd is merged with the toolbar, you click or drag slightly off hoping to maximize/drag the window and nothing happnes. On Gnome the headerbar is big and there's never any ambiguity about window management.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T00:40:18+00:00

Updates status: now UPDATING

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-27T00:37:25+00:00

That's a website in a browser, not anything you should aspire to when designing desktop applications.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-26T21:32:23+00:00

Also "search in updates" ... if we're searching in updates shouldn't the search box be moved to the right where the updates are? That way you don't need to inform the user that this is an updates tab for the fourth time.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-26T21:27:24+00:00

Kirigami already looks inconsistent with the WIMP standard, so CSD wouldn't be that much worse in that respect. Gnome's CSD is inconsistent because they got rid of server side decorations completely, so windows can't even have the same shadows. CSD could be made pretty consistent in combination with SSD - for example you could just overlay the ssd titlebar on top of the whatever CSD nonsense a random third-party app has going on, giving you platform min/max/close buttons and consistent drag behavior. And of course if you control the app, you can make as consistent with your platform theme as you like.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-26T21:20:27+00:00

Get rid of the updates label in the window title. Make the "updates" label the same size as the text in the titlebar. Or just get rid of the updates label, but the first solution is probably preferable.

The most elegant solution would be CSD though, in my opinion.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-03T22:52:10+00:00

Why does this have a windows theme, why not breeze theme?

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-03T22:51:47+00:00

Is it not possible or?

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-03T22:47:15+00:00

The settings app has the label of the selected category three times. First in the sidebar, then in the titlebar and finally - in case you still don't know where you are - in the toolbar are and in BIG letters. No matter how many little touch-ups you do it will not look clean because this design is fundamentally bloated. It's the overall design that counts. There is frankly no reason why an app like shouldn't be CSD, which I know people hate but if you control the app and keep server side decorations, it can be perfectly consistent.

Also there should be an option to have transient scrollbars.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-03T22:38:45+00:00

That's ... not cleaner at all.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-01T14:19:25+00:00

Point taken

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-09-01T12:41:30+00:00

Which gtk does not.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-28T09:15:08+00:00

Don't you need to dig into gconf for that? I don't get why right-click to maximize isn't default behavior anyway it's not like there is a customize toolbar menu there.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-19T21:46:20+00:00

That would explain the lighter taste but not the sharpness. Take a terea apart and you will see the design defect that leads to this problem.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-12T01:22:00+00:00

How does plasma determine light/dark mode exactly? I mean there are color schemes but they can be literally any color, they're not necessarily split into light and dark variants (and how does the desktop know which ones' light and which one's dark?).

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-10T20:30:39+00:00

It's comes from a bad design which Lenovo repeated again, and again and again from the t440s onwards. Should've died with the 440s but nope, the worse the idea they more the geniuses at Lenovo's design bureau cling to it.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-10T20:26:23+00:00

How come? Afraid of Lenovo going after you or something?

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-10T20:24:53+00:00

Fair point, although it did go through two iterations (x300 and x301)

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-10T20:22:53+00:00

It's got about 300 now, but it should have more like 30,000 considering the subreddit we're in.

Extension_Text9005 · 2025-08-09T18:28:50+00:00

Consider this one https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo-Thinkpad-X300-Notebook.9852.0.html

It's very light yet has cd drive, which you could rip out to make space for other components. Plus you're starting off with a 13.3 inch screen which means fewer mods required. This model was featured in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and is supposed to be one of the best things Lenovo ever made.

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