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Comment by andsoitis | Hacker News Reader

do you have a designer on the team?

I know people who use KDE and like it, and I'm sure it's great technically, but I don't understand why KDE chooses to be stuck with a design language which looked dated years ago, while GNOME continues to develop their style. It's not the type of tried and tested design which isn't in fashion but has remaining qualities. The design of KDE is visually displeasing and brings a poor user experience.

This is basically asking for a response that's just the original comment but with "KDE" and "Gnome" switched. I personally find KDE to look very nice and bring a much better and less clunky user experience than Gnome, so it's completely subjective I suppose. I congratulate the KDE contributors on continuing to make a great product even with people saying it sucks all the time.

You could not be more wrong. Kde is the last vestige of interfaces are powerful, pretty, and that don't their users like idiots.

You have your GNOME and simmilar ilk, be content with that and leave KDE alone.

I know, right? KDE always looks so good, it's amazing how their designers make it work so well while allowing users to fully customise everything.

They do, but they always use that weird design by default on KDE Plasma. It's a concious decision to go with those weird margins and spacing between elements

The first screenshot of the home screen in the article made me retch. But also, the KDE _default_ desktop has an equally weird design, so this is not really an exception.

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