Should be noted that compared to Unity, GNOME 3 is an even more extreme variant of the phone/netbook UI.
Many of KDE apps are the best in a given category. Konsole certainly is.
Have you tried Terminator?
> Terminator on Mac OS X showing live search highlighting and UTF-8
Looks like something working around deficiences in Mac OS X's terminal app which just aren't there in modern X11 terms.
Judging from its feature highlights, the only one I did not see in Konsole is horizontal scrolling.
Different strokes for different folks but I don't enjoy the OS/2, Windows, KDE way of doing things.
I'm thankful we have choices.
The reason I like gnome most is because it is so out of the way. I am enjoying maximal screen estate while switching apps is just as easy as it is supposed to be.
When gnome shell was new some things were buggy, especially on low power machines, but that changed really quick. I can't think of a single issue.
At least on Debian-based distros, those KDE apps just require a lot of additional packages.
Xfce is simple. LXDE is simpler still, and LXQt simpler than that.
KDE is not simple. It is a complex and elaborate environment with extremely complex customisation options, and it still doesn't do things I want from a Windows-like desktop.
- I can't set (or limit) the size of the Start button or the clock.
- I can't have a panel spanning 2+ screens. (That was an option; it was removed.)
- I can't have a vertical taskbar that works as well as Windows.
- It does not use Windows keystrokes, which in a Windows copy is unacceptable.
- If it is so customisable, why can't I have BeOS tabbed title bars? Or side title bars, like in wm2?
- Why can't I tick a box that says ALWAYS show me a menu bar, because I hate hamburger menus and never ever want them.
(1) that they forced desktop users on a phone UI intentionally
(2) or that they weren't trying to make a phone UI but somehow ended up with the gross garbage that is GNOME 3+ anyway.
Either way GNOME 3+ stinks.
Even the GNOME developers had to concede and offer the alternative GNOME flashback (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback), which looks like GNOME 2 (but not customizable). Given how intransigent they are usually, the push-back must have been enormous.
Almost no one appreciated Unity when it was around.
All this nostalgia for it is just that.
If Ubuntu switched to Unity tomorrow people would just start whining like mad about it.
I bet Gnome Fladhback doesn’t even get 1% of the usage of actual Gnome.
Nothing to do with whiners. Although I'm sure the world feels like it's full of whiners if you work on UIs at Red Hat. As is often the case though, that feeling is more a reflection of your situation than objective reality.
Gnome is even more of a loser on FreeBSD.