Some other noteworthy applications included with KDE are: So, YMMV with Krita, but definitely worth checking out! Note: it is available as a free download for Linux, Mac and Windows here.ĭoing a little research on it, it seems like many people are starting to switch from GIMP to Krita, and it (apparently) has much better organization and tools that neither GIMP nor Photoshop have. Krita is a photo editor similar to GIMP or Adobe Photoshop, however I personally haven’t used it much. One piece of software I’m not sure about whether is shipped with KDE Plasma by default or whether the Manjaro team decided to use on their own, was Krita: digiKam however takes that to the next level with an open source KDE alternative to Adobe Bridge.Ī very powerful, professional grade photo organizer and manager digiKam is a great piece of software for anyone who’s seriously shutter happy like I am. Other awesome pieces of software include things like Gwenview, which is the default photo organizer and viewer for KDE Plasma it’s attractive yet minimalistic (for KDE), and does everything I personally need. I typically customize my Dolphin to include a filter bar, folder tree, and split screen view maximizing my efficiency and saving myself clicks down the road when I have work to do I don’t feel like doing via CLI. Dolphin is the creme de la creme of GNU/Linux file browsers powerful, attractive, full of features and nicely organized, it’s truly hard to beat Dolphin. Talking about default KDE software, should always begin with Dolphin in my opinion. More themes can be downloaded from Default Software I personally selected “Maia Dark†as my theme, and I must say it’s rather nice. Clicking the kicker menu > Settings > System Settings, will take you to a screen where you have all the various settings similar to the Windows Control Panel simply click “Workspace Theme†and the theme manager will open. To make this change, you simply right click the kicker, and select “Alternatives.â€Ĭhanging themes was a breeze in KDE as well, and has some rather nice options included by default. The animations have a lot more zip to them as well, so no delay when you want to find a program, and overall I find it still looks attractive to the eye as well. I prefer the cascading menu, as it’s still got superb organization including the option to add favourite applications to a little side bar built into the menu for quick and easy launching of frequently used programs. Thankfully, KDE has the options built right in to change your menu style to either a fullscreen system that reminds me of Gnome or UNITY as well as the Launchpad from Mac OS X, or a more traditional cascading menu like the older windows systems. The kicker menu in the bottom left corner is nice, great animations, nice organization too however I find it clunky and slow, I absolutely love it’s organization but I find the delay in animations slows down my productivity. Right clicking the desktop and selecting “Configure Desktop†took me to where I could change my wallpaper and a few other options, so I promptly swapped over to one of the other defaults, a nice forest photo. In Manjaro running KDE Plasma, it’s a mostly dark theme with green accents, flat icons, and an abstract background by default overall, a great start. KDE is gorgeous, this is a well known fact it’s got plenty of bells and whistles, effects, transitions, animations and other various forms of eye candy. However, this overview will not be focusing on Manjaro specific software. Secondly, I initially was going to install OpenSUSE as it’s my favourite KDE powered distro, but I read that Manjaro KDE was very well put together, I hadn’t tried it yet, and I love Manjaro so I thought it would be a good experience. Fresh install of Manjaro KDE with no extra software installedįor this I decided to wipe my Manjaro XFCE/MATE install and install a fresh copy of Manjaro KDE for two reasons.įirstly, because I read that installing KDE over XFCE with Manjaro can be a headache and I simply didn’t want to deal with that.The machine I am using has the following specs: A Look at Desktop Environments: KDE 5 Plasma KDE has always been a weird thing for me, I quite enjoy its almost limitless amount of customizability, the great tools that it comes with, and yet I never seem to stick with it and I have no idea why I actually couldn’t pinpoint the reason even if I tried, so you can take that as you wish.Ĭheck out the first part of the desktop environments overview covering Mate here.
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