Yes. You can modify KDE how you like. The initial should be easy to use and recognizable.
KDE Akademy: Scott Jenson: Are We Really Going to Use the Same Desktop UX Forever?
Submitted 3 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-7-are_we_really_going_to_use_the_same_desktop_ux_forever
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phar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
qaz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Did you see the examples at 28:30? Those things can’t be done yet.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Hopefully not. There is a lot that can be done, those little prototypes be suggested seem interesting. I have a few ideas myself but its hard to be the efficiency and usablity of what we’ve refined for the past 30 years.
foggy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes. Do not fix what is not broken.
lime@feddit.nu 3 days ago
windows 3.11s program manager wasn’t broken either. nor was norton commander for DOS, or motif for workstation unices. you need to innovate to even know if you’re in a local maximum.
foggy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Program Manager wasn’t broken” doesn’t really contradict “don’t fix what isn’t broken.”
The point isn’t that interfaces should never change. It’s that changes should solve identifiable problems. Program Manager eventually stopped scaling well to how people were actually using computers, and the taskbar/Start menu ux we all use today solved most of those problems. It took iterations, but we’ve got something pretty solid these days as compared to Windows 3.11.
If you think the current desktop UX has equivalent problems, identify them. “We’ve used this paradigm for a long time” is not itself a reason to replace it.
Jiffy_Lubricant@piefed.world 3 days ago
True. Until someone makes a Windows Bob, you can’t know that no one needs a Windows Bob.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This can be done inside your brain if you have the processing power.