One of my biggest gripes about Linux in general is that none of the DEs can settle on a UI kit. I get WHY, but ffs, this is a major set back for various apps.
What, the grey bars? Crappy is a rude way of putting it, but yes they looks pretty bad. I think that’s probably an artifact from the Qt4 days. It looked fine with Oxygen. Rest looks fine to me. If you think it looks busy, well the screenshot has a lot of panels enabled, just to showcase the features. IIRC many of them are not shown by default and a user would only keep the ones they need, since the interface is customizable.
I’m not trying to be “rude.” But the line height, weird font sizes, spacing between elements. Just everything about it screams function over form. There is a way to have both. Most software that adheres to modern design principles have overcome the “janky” UI
@tsonfeir@leopold I think they’re more focused on fixing build errors and putting out a release for now, and leave UI updates for later. So we’re stuck with the old look for this release.
afaik they’re all dock widgets, meaning they can all be hidden, moved and resized at will. you can even split them off into their own windows if you want
Still looks like ass
And there was already a style change 😅
I’d really like to know where Kde is heading style wise (I’m a regular donor)
One of my biggest gripes about Linux in general is that none of the DEs can settle on a UI kit. I get WHY, but ffs, this is a major set back for various apps.
Amarok uses Qt, just like every other KDE project. Likewise, I don’t think GNOME has any project not using GTK.
So it’s just crappy?
What, the grey bars? Crappy is a rude way of putting it, but yes they looks pretty bad. I think that’s probably an artifact from the Qt4 days. It looked fine with Oxygen. Rest looks fine to me. If you think it looks busy, well the screenshot has a lot of panels enabled, just to showcase the features. IIRC many of them are not shown by default and a user would only keep the ones they need, since the interface is customizable.
I’m not trying to be “rude.” But the line height, weird font sizes, spacing between elements. Just everything about it screams function over form. There is a way to have both. Most software that adheres to modern design principles have overcome the “janky” UI
@tsonfeir @leopold I think they’re more focused on fixing build errors and putting out a release for now, and leave UI updates for later. So we’re stuck with the old look for this release.
It’s stuck on Qt5 while KDE is on Qt6
Yeah those glossy buttons etc don’t fit in with the flat breeze theme at all. Looks like an unholy child of windows Vista and KDE 5
It’s not the theme, it’s that it has 5 panels visible with vague hirerarchy. Music players shouldn’t look like IDEs
afaik they’re all dock widgets, meaning they can all be hidden, moved and resized at will. you can even split them off into their own windows if you want