Hello,
On Zorin OS since most of the GNOME (gtk) apps lack many features for the sake of minimalism (!), I use KDE/other (QT) alternatives.
Some of the QT apps I use:
- Dolphin instead of Nautilus File Manager (show hidden items with a different color, select predefined icons for folders similar to Windows, show recently accesed folders(not just files), show folder content thumbnail preview images, run desktop files, remember latest state (windows,folders,tabs) on startup, support typeahead search instead of searching recursively on all subfolders when you press a key...)
- Okular instead of GNOME Evince Document Viewer (electronic signatures, tabbed view, annotations, form filling, manual / drawn signatures..)
- Copyq (gnome doesn't even ship a clipboard manager)
- KolourPaint instead of Pinta (Gnome doesn't ship a simple/basic level image editor/annotator/cropper app something like MS Paint)
- Krita instead of GIMP (I mean with GIMP you can edit svg files but you cannot save them as svg and many similar absurd problems..)
- SMPlayer/VLC instead of GNOME Totem Videos (Totem is even worse than Windows 11's Media Player about features and codecs)
- Flameshot instead of GNOME Screenshot (to annotate/write text/add shapes.. to screenshot while taking it)
- OBS Studio instead of GNOME Video Recorder (GNOME use VP8 Webm format so that it's like 1000 slower to seek a video)
- and many more qt apps (qbittorrent, android file transfer...)
I also managed to change themes of qt apps successfully on Zorin, but one issue left for me is file picker.
For example when I open the file picker with a qt app (using File-Open)
I am not able to see the bookmarks, snap version at least shows the places but still not the bookmarks. (On Dolphin I have no problem)
How can I sync those? (I can manually add on Okular but they won't be synced with dolphin..) Or is it the only way? Thanks.
