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@kde@floss.social · 3 days ago

@sitter and @AleixPol are streaming their Sunday coding session live right now:

https://www.twitch.tv/daft_code

Get an inside view into how KDE developers work together, and join the chat with developers Nate Graham and Nichols Fella, while they make snarky remarks about Aleix's and Harald's cooking skills.

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social · 3 days ago

@dendrobatus_azureus @Radio_Azureus @magitian

I loved xfce and enjoyed tweaking it, but it seems they're following Gnome into CSD madness, along with GTK. I hope this changes.

And honestly, CSDs aren't the worst things in UI design today, not by far.

As far as the scrollbars, there was a huge culture shift in Apple between 2007-2014 or so, where the iPhone "department" (business division or whatever) became dominant and grossly overshadowed the Macintosh group. Somehow (for that reason or because of completely unrelated factors), it became popular for MacOS to copy iOS, and the (arguably useless) scrollbars were one of the first things to come along.

[MacOS copied iOS], Windows copied MacOS, Linux copied both, and welcome to hades, please wait for a daimon to poke you with with his trident. 🙄

Edit: typo

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@Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchange · 3 days ago

You're absolutely right there are worse things occuring.

But the following is a bad CSD

CSD In Firefox mobile

Something odd was changed in the user interface; the sidebar it's actually the menu that you get when you tap on the double point in the lower right corner, was transformed into this massive monstrosity which covers the whole Android display.
It distracts
All the extra information is useless
it takes many more GPU Cycles to throw that big thing on the screen
no one was consulted within the user base would tell them that it just makes everything worse, because you don't see anything underneath

CSD Enshittification Factor

Instead of going on I'll just stick with what that still works I may need to go all the way back to that MX Linux distro which at least feels familiar and use as many clients that don't abuse CSDs

One more question; what example do you have of something that's worse than client-side decorations

IMHO the one I just referred too, is a very bad one

Quote Wikipedia:

Limitations
If the application hangs, the user cannot close it by clicking the close button in the window frame.[12]

BTW to prove your point;

It took me 15 minutes to compose this lousy small message on the Android. It would have taken me 120 seconds on one of the desktops running here
All because of horrific user interfaces low free RAM and bad CSD choices on the Android

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_decoration?wprov=sfla1

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Client-side decoration - Wikipedia

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@kde@floss.social · 4 days ago

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...

The Digital clock widget gets the Vietnamese lunar calendar, highlighted items get rounded corners, and the Favorites section in the app launcher menu gets all flashy 📸... Among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/28/this-week-in-plasma-vietnamese-lunar-calendar-and-rounder-highlights/

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These "before" and "after" screenshots show a highlighted option in the Dolphin sidebar with square corners in the "before" image, and with rounded corners in the "after" image.

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This Week in Plasma: Vietnamese lunar calendar and rounder highlights

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, in addition to the typical post-Plasma-release bug-fix spree, folks started working on UI improvements and features. Two notable examples are highlighted in the title, and found below:

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@kde@floss.social · 4 days ago

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...

The Digital clock widget gets the Vietnamese lunar calendar, highlighted items get rounded corners, and the Favorites section in the app launcher menu gets all flashy 📸... Among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/28/this-week-in-plasma-vietnamese-lunar-calendar-and-rounder-highlights/

#Plasma6 #desktop #linux #haiku #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #FreeSoftware #OpenSource