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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Well to wayland work with nvidia

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Still waiting for a DE that's looks and acts like i3/sway but takes care of everything under the hood like monitor config, shortcuts for brightness, volume etc. Essentially everything Gnome or KDE does.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actual proper touch support, which includes a decent built-in keyboard (looking at you KDE...).

I love 2-in-1's, but I do wish touch support would go all the way. It's like... 70-80% there, with Gnome having a good keyboard and KDE having the better touch support overall. But it just needs to go the final stretch to make it a good experience.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

All the Wayland stuff related to gaming in GNOME.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Dunno, KDE Plasma has it all. I would not mind some design improvements, but that is what Plasma 6 will bring. I just need to wait :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Working Screensharing from first boot lmao

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Configurable touchpad gestures on Plasma. And a non-nonsense gesture to open the overview effect (waiting for Plasma 6, already done :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Better trackpad support on KDE on Wayland. I use multi-finger gestures all the time on my MacBook, and my System76 laptop supports them on Windows, but the only gesture that works on Linux is two-finger scrolling.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Well this isn't a DE thing but I would like good ray tracing and the new frame gen support for my AMD GPU.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Tabbed windows like Haiku has. I love that feature so much but I've only ever seen it on tiling WMs on Linux

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to my wallpaper collection

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

As a Gnome user, a expansion of that background apps think that properly replaces Appindicators!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a new linux user, I would like KDE to fix their trackpad gestures because they suck. Please copy Windows or macOS. And I want fractional scaling in GNOME without everything looking blurry.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Ability to pin applications to the taskbar depending on which virtual desktop/workspace you are in. For example, I'd like a coding desktop that just has an ide, browser, and terminal.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Just install it and not have to care about anything system related. Just keep out of my way and let me do what I need to do. Linux, Windows, MacOS, the operating system should not be an end, but a mean.

If you need to update, just do it and don't bother me. I plug something, just show it to me. Something is proprietary? I don't care, just want it to work...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
  • wayland on xfce & cinnamon
  • not exactly DE, but wayland greeter on sddm
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm on a tiling WM. If I want a specific feature, I make it happen.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why's there an AI image attached to this question?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ability to run Android apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a better on screen keyboard for gnome

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm just mostly waiting for Plasma 6 so I can use all the Wayland goodies it comes with.

Another thing I'm looking forward to is Wine-Wayland to be ready.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Since I am a GNOME user, and GNOME is the closest DE to perfection, integrating commonly used addons will be enough to make it the undisputable king.

Integrate:

  • Dash To Panel, like how Tweaks has been
  • gTile/Tactile for great multiple window tiling experience
  • Resource Monitor, which shows upload/download internet speed, CPU and RAM usage
  • indicator for Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock and Shift
  • colour picker that works on Wayland
  • desaturation slider and colourblind filters like how KDE Plasma 6 has done

The amount of space all this currently takes on a 1366x768 screen is 18 pixels height.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better support for gaming laptops with both igpu and dedicated gpus like in windows so that I can stop having to reboot when I want to go from portable mode to gaming mode

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ability to easily resize scrollbars, KDE.

We had them right for so long.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to be able to see true integration between Apps and the WM. I saw a lot of good stuff with the way that Instant Messengers, Downloaders and IRC clients and various accounts could be made part of the normal interface. Now everything is web apps, or worse, Web Desktop Apps, which is also a big huge Electron apps that are more Isolated from each other than ever.

The only things apps share today are notifications, and I could definitely have less of those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Working and well-integrated "run this on that rendering GPU", with unused GPUs being switched off (laptop use case).

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