I’ve distro hopped quite a bit over the last few years. I’ve realized recently that I tend to gravitate toward KDE Plasma as a desktop environment, but I don’t take advantage of the customization as much as I could.
As I sit here looking through the KDE Plasma settings I’m curious to hear what are some favorite things to change in any DE. Please share what you like to do when you get a vanilla install. Do you have a favorite icon pack? Do you have a favorite theme? Any particular widgets that you would recommend?
I’m sure there is more out there than I can think of. Please share!
Edit: I can’t respond to everyone, but this is a great discussion. So many good suggestions and ideas. Keep them coming!
in m$win/kde-style-env: two row taskbar, titles always visible (like on win2k/kde3)
also sloppy focus and autoraise for mouse. extremely useful when you use many windows.
I don’t keep much in my taskbar at a time but I do remember using that back in Windows ME I think?
I totally forgot about mouse focus. I’m used to Windows for work but maybe I’ll change to sloppy. I’ll definitely give it a try
btw sloppy focus is also available on m$ windows. they call it x-mouse,you can enable manually thru registry or use a feature in some freeware called winaero tweaker
TIL. Thanks!