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I hate floating taskbars. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Stupid space wasters that make everything look like a toy.

A professional taskbar should be attached to the bottom of the screen, and an unprofessional one should be auto hidden or on the side of the screen. Top's a bit weird, but has character.

I moved from Mint to Bazzite the other day and was just about ready to move back when I saw the default desktop. Flatpaks are... Different, but don't seem particularly better or worse yet. That fucking floating taskbar had to go though. Disgusting. Stick to the edge of the screen like you're meant to.

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[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

imagine using a GUI

real goo goo ga ga vibes

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not the 1960s you don't need your punch cards any more

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You installed it in the same week that most of the Ublue atomic spins like Bazzite launched their own store app called Bazaar that only shows flatpaks from Flathub and isn't slow as dirt like KDE Discover. It's pretty nice.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Me, GNOME's biggest fan, silently amused.

Anyway you can change it by right clicking on the bottom panel and switching it off.

The floating panel in KDE is adaptive, so it will attach itself to the bottom when a window is maximized or hovers over it. This change was made almost 2 years ago when Plasma 6 was first released.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it will attach itself to the bottom when a window is maximized or hovers over it.

Sickening. It knows how it should behave but refuses. Whoever came up with that should be shot.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Whoever came up with that should be shot.

Hes right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONH73CdRXUjlh3-DdLGCPw

[+] Inui@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

KDE, which is part of what made me so mad - it's meant to be the windows-like! Now I've worked out how the desktop works I'm really enjoying the fine tuning though, it really lets you get things exactly to your liking.

The only annoyance I've had was copying my profile into Firefox, which required some reading about flatpaks and flatseal, but I do have a question about the file systems: I've got a second drive just for my steam games formatted in ext4. It seems to work fine so I'm probably just going to leave it as is, but is there any reason to change it to btrfs like the main drive?

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it's meant to be the windows-like!

Its where GNOME heretics go to be buried in 10,000 checkboxes and layers of customization options and small clickable areas. /joke

but is there any reason to change it to btrfs like the main drive?

No reason, any kernel filesystem should support saturating a disk drive. You can use BTRFS if you specifically want compression, subvolumes and features like btrfs send/receive but real world performance for games will not observably change.