All about qt apps on KDE/Plasma.
Which qt apps can you recommend?
In the multimedia department there's always Audacious, kdenlive, OBS and VLC and the graphic part we have Krita and Digikam.
What else?
Does ProtonUp-Qt count? <_<
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As you know I prefer OS's without systemd, pulse audio, flatpak and snaps. Audacious is a good choice as you can use it to ensure that ALSA is used over Pulse Audio. Similarly, my screen capture program needs to be ALSA compatible so OBS, vokoscreen-NG are out and SimpleScreenRecorder in. Qmmp for audio over Clementine and Visualisations of ProjectM work with it, Clementine has dropped ProjectM for some reason. I can only get visualisations to work in Q4OS, trying it in Zorin crashes Qmmp. I have no longer an interest in VLC. SMPlayer is good for most things, as is mpv. I always felt Krita a bit overcrowded on the interface like Corel did when they bought out JASC's Paint Shop Pro which you can work under wine and download it from Internet Archive. And let's not forget Inkscape. I don't want anything to do with Wayland so in the long run I just might stick with Artix and XLibre.
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I'm not really in the KDE / QT sphere anymore, but I remember liking to a decent extent Okular. Albeit I only used it for minor things and some signing here and there briefly, but it was good enough at what it did without having more stuff that it didn't need to do.
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i recommend Okular for users of that other OS too.
What I like about Okular is it's accessibility options - it can read selected text or all of it, can export a pdf to .txt, can be magnified up to something ridiculous like 2000%, pdf's can be viewed as a presentation, and presentation files can be viewed in Okular. Multiple Annotation choices, extraction of images and tables into your preferred Text Processor. I also recommended it to the school where the integrated resource was based but don't think they ever took it up as it would have helped students for revision purposes. I even did a training video for the Integrated Resource on how to extract text and images for modification for students who are print-disabled.
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I would name the Text Editor Kate. That is a nice one. The already from @applecheeks37 named Okular is a nice Program, too in my Opinion. And Krita, too.
One Thing what I don't like is Dolphin, the File Manager. I mean, it works and does what it should but ... how can I say that ... I don't like the Handling.
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I find it funny that Inkscape runs better in KDE than Gnome. Try open 4+ images of Inkscape at the same time.
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Interesting. I like Dolphin pretty well, or at least much better than Nautilus. That said, I haven't made any real effort to try any but those two. I think MX uses LXDE's file manager, but I use MX as needed, not as a daily driver, so I haven't done a lot with it.
I would see even Nautilus over Dolphin - so much I don't like it. But over both of them is for me Nemo. That is a good one.
I agree with @swarfendor437 that Dolphin is awesome. Though I set it up minimalism.
What you guys think of Dragonplayer besides the cool name?
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KDE Plasma 6.4.5 is out!
A bugfix release with smoother panels, better widget behavior, and improved stability across the board.
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My main concern about any DE is whether it supports X11 or XLibre for users that need accessibility. GNU/Linux should be inclusive of all users.
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The "modern" GTK and Gnome system has thrown accessibility right out of the window.
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And here Linux is supposed to be better then Windows, and what do they do, start acting just like them.
This is one of the reasons why I stick with Zorin OS, is cause the dev's don't turn their backs on us, like the rest of Linux appear to be doing now.
I'm particularly annoyed by the automatic forced Wayland garbage, when it clearly was not ready. Were supposed to be better then Microsoft, we better start acting like it.
Shifting exclusively to GNome, Wayland and Flatpak as default... Oh... I don't know.
Guess will see when Zorin OS 18 is released ha?
All I know, I've had a great time on Zorin OS 16, its suited my needs for years, I really can't knock it. Of course its EOL now, which is why I'll need to upgrade when OS 18 is released.
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