Basically competent support for hardware for laptops newer than 2014. Proper thunderbolt, displaylink, trackpad, fingerprint reader, facial rec support.
That's fair.
I'm glad I don't rely on any of that, personally. Aside from the trackpad, which works as it should.
Kde, cast the screen wirelessly. The gnome app does work but it's not integrated in kde display configuration
A bunch of ai garbage and also some ads please! Maybe collect info about me and sell it to marketing corporations while you're there.
I really want to have better tiling and window management in Gnome. Ubuntu has an add-on released with 23.10 that I haven't got around to test yet. And I know that Gnome has that feature in the works, but it annoys me that Windows 11 has better management of windows with window-snapping than my DE of choice.
I use the forge extension, about 80% satisfied. Only issue I have is that all windows open on my second monitor and I have to move them.
I find I have that issue in Windows 10. There's not much consistency between applications in terms of which monitor or even desktop they'll launch in when I open them.
I just hope GNOME's developers would stop being so insufferable. Lots of Wayland extensions and FreeDesktop portals unimplemented on GNOME because of the developers' stubbornness. These also adversely affect to other DEs and WMs and Wayland's evolution itself because other DEs would have less reasons to support a standard if one of the largest DEs themselves don't support it.
I really love GNOME because it's polished, but if KDE would be just as polished I will immediately switch. I know KDE works really hard to make the DE and the apps in general as polished and modern as possible, but I can't still help but feel better at GNOME.
One example is the color scheming protocol by FreeDesktop. You can now make your apps look greenish or purplish or whatever color you want regardless of the toolkit they're made with. Right? Well no, because the insufferable GNOME developers keep blocking the proposal because they want the colors to be hardcoded by the DE. They were offered a compromise where a DE can just offer a limited, curated color picker to the user when they go to the theming settings and allow any arbitrary color hidden behind commands, but the insufferable GNOME developers said no. And the proposal, last time I heard, is still stalled because of GNOME.
XFCE with polish/feature parity of Gnome (with Dash-to-panel), and Wayland support.
Yeah maybe it'll be ready by 2030 lol. I don't know why XFCE development is so incredibly slow
Gnome has at least some payed developers at IBM / Ubuntu. (unless IBM/Red Hat fired them, yet?)
KDE has a big community, and there is some sponsoring happening from Valve (!).
Xfce, to the best of my knowledge, has no full time developer.
Better Wayland support across the board, but also more Wayland compositors and window managers from which to choose. I'd make my own but I know so very little about Wayland right now and it would take me a while to learn.
Also, I have always wanted desktop environments to be more like Emacs, i.e. to be fully programmable in a Lisp language like Common Lisp or Scheme, where you can just whip-up a GUI app for anything you want in a few minutes with a few lines of code. Operating systems like that existed back in the 1970s and 80s, but went extinct when Windows and Macintosh took over everything, which were never designed to be programmable by end users. It sucks because there hasn't been anything like it ever since.
To see what I am talking about, check out the historical preservation projects for Lisp Machines like the InterLisp Medley desktop environment or the CADR ZMacs editor.
A better "desktop as an IDE" experience would be killer to me too. Even if it's not for everyone, I think as an accelerator for FOSS designers of Linux desktop apps it would be cool
The tiling concept that was shown off some time ago for GNOME looks amazing
I want a tiling WM like hyprland to become a full DE with all the softwares installed together at once, some presets and settings instead of config files, so I don't loose any more time tweaking it forever.
Yeah, I tried Hyprland but never really felt alright coming from KDE because I don't have the skill learning all config apps like eww or wayfire Panel etc.
A community workshop thing like KDE does would be even more awesome.
I used hyprland for a year or so, made config files (which are on GitHub) and I loved it but it takes so much time and effort. So now I am on KDE and it is alright.
Please inbuilt on screen keyboard. For the love of god windows on screen keyboard is miles ahead of any Linux alternative and on Wayland the scene is even worse.
Configurable touchpad gestures on Plasma. And a non-nonsense gesture to open the overview effect (waiting for Plasma 6, already done :)
KDE with GNOME design or GNOME with KDE functionality.
Consistency between all elements, apps and other things.
Heh, I actually really like the way you put that.
To be fair, though, KDE is pretty unified. Not as unified as it could be (or gnome), but it's close.
Theming, controlled one central place.
This goes for both Gnome (GTK, Qt, Gnome Shell) and Sway (GTK, Qt, Sway, Rofi, Waybar...)
