Spyke
lemmy.ml

Unfortunately for Microsoft there aren't any big UI or UX changes in Plasma 6. Guess they'll have to wait to steal ideas for Windows 12.

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woelkchenreply
lemmy.world

Unfortunately for Microsoft there aren’t any big UI or UX changes in Plasma 6. Guess they’ll have to wait to steal ideas for Windows 12.

According to a Win12 screenshot from October 2022, Microsoft has been copying macOS's floating dock since before KDE decided to also copy that. Amusingly, in the merge request for the Plasma change, this was even pointed out:

Luckily it's still Plasma, so such needless changes just for the sake of looking like macOS are customizable and can be easily reverted by us users.

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unalivejoyreply
lemm.ee

Or we double down on the floating. Make it float off the screen.

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uisreply
lemmy.world

since before KDE decided to also copy that.

Quick search says that floating deck looks like default XFCE panel. How they correlate?

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lemm.ee

And Apple as well should toss their stage manager into the trash and implement a clone of forge GNOME extension.

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leekleakreply
lemmy.world

Shame the extension seems to be on the verge of becoming abandonware...

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Ehh, I will use it for as long as it works, but it seems like if no one volunteers to become a maintainer, the project will be archived.

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👀 Edit: I appreciate the thoughts very much, but after first look, forge seems to me more my taste. I still will watch it.

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In fact, I tested that, and it is very great work. For me, it is visually not as appealing as Gnome with forge.. And I understand that it makes sense to abandon the extension way and go for own DE with such a gigantic change of behavior of Gnome. Extension are just not made for that drastic changes which material shell is/was doing in gnome.

I’ll check what happens with forge and maybe fork it, if it really gets unmaintained.

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Fin
lemmy.ml

I've seen the sneak peek of windows 12 (if that were true), it looks like gnome I think

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lemmy.world

“You will love the cloud and we will sell everything you upload to it. You won’t own your data, OS or hardware when we are done.”

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yeehawreply
lemmy.ca

My prediction is that windows 13 will stream from the cloud, your "windows" on your computer will be just a lightweight Linux OS branded by Microsoft to stream a windows VM from azure.

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No, they're just going to make a lightweight NT Kernel that only has what's needed to stream a Virtual Machine.

Bold of you to assume they'd use software that's already been built. They gotta reinvent the wheel every time.

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I'm still waiting for the Libre Office citrus UI... Although LO did manage to get their version of a ribbon into it. It's still not quite there for me, though. Their icons are not as good and I get lost in their design choices.

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Finreply
lemmy.ml

oh my god, they're trying to accommodate for screen touch users too, I'm getting windows 8 flashback here

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1984reply
lemmy.today

Doesn't matter that much how it looks. It will be equally annoying and disturbed compared to windows 11, or worse. :)

Microsoft stopped making operating systems for the user a long time ago.

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Petter1reply
lemm.ee

This is what happens if you let the services team design the OS, same is happening on iPhones as well, to be fair. On iPhone, it is just a little more decent.

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lemmy.zip

I personally see iphones as awful and a waste of money.

You should get a android phone and install Lineage os. F-droid is the only app store you need.

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lemmings.world

Yeah, F-Droid sucks. The team makes arbitrary rules for the packages that are not mentioned anywhere on their website and rejecting packages based on said arbitrary rules. Happened to me.

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lemmy.zip

The rules are fairly clear and are to protect the end users from abuse and anti features. F-droid doesn't just deny you for no reason.

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lemmings.world

As I said, it was a rule made up on a spot. Though recently I've read that they had a problem with one of the maintainers being a dick to people, so I'm curious if it was that one.

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