By what you just told I can’t tell if you have ever tried a live distro with it. I hope you did, or if not, that you pick a distro of your liking and try it with your laptop.
(My PC is about 7 years old and it’s still going as new, so I was shocked reading your comment - I completely forgot Windows/Mac really tax you for “old” hardware)
and they also redesigned their website to look exactly like GNOME’s
Oh. I thought this was just another case of the consequences of the GNOME-ization of GTK but that… probably they want to became part of GNOME.
I just happen to be in the complete opposite. I think it’s better because I like it and it lets me to do what I want to do without getting in the way.
Linux bloat, graphic description
I have a stupid idea about a semi-local RSS feed: say there is a db file of your RSS feeds that is automatically synced between your phone and your PC via KDE Connect technology. You can consume said feed with either Akregator (PC) and a phone app (iirc there’s already a KDE phone app to read RSS) and both will keep track of your feeds, groups, read status and etcetera. No need to login to a third party service or anything like that.
I just don’t know if this makes sense only to me or how to post this as an idea somewhere - the times I’ve tried to do that in the past I just got sealioned
The one I’ve been using for the last 17 years, Gentoo
I so wish they can bring back the one-wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop thing. I’ve been missing it since the KDE 4.x days, but now seeing the dynamic virtual desktops thing in GNOME makes me wish KDE had it as an option (like, you could chosse between dynamic virtual desktops or fixed virtual desktops).
I just don’t like ssdm or logind non-integration with kde.
As if I didn’t had enough reasons to love Gentoo.
I still wonder if the systemd imposition on the new login manager is absolute and can’t be circumvented in any way, i.e. GNOME is allegedly dependent on systemd but you can circumvent it by using logind instead of the full systemd install
Just be aware that that ain’t as easy as opening a graphic, selecting something, changing the opacity, saving and voilá.
Some files can be in svg format, some can be in svgz format. svgz is just a gzipped svg but I’m not sure if Inkscape can open them directly.
Then most probably the svg elements that build the parts of the panel or the plasmoid can and most probably would be grouped. So you need to ungroup them first and be aware of that. Maybe they’re grouped because that’s how Plasma seeks them as an individual element and, if it’s that, they will have an special id associated for them so Plasma can find them (iirc in Inkscape you can check for that in Object->Properties or something like that, a popup dialog will appear). So take note of those ids.
Once you’re done editing your stuff be sure all elements are grouped and id-ed as they came originally and then you can save the file(s) so Plasma will find the files and elements correctly without messing them up.
(See, that’s why I hate that Plasma relies on SVG for all of that stuff. The very fact that you require a non-kde app to create/edit/update them is unbelievably stupid)
You’d want to take a look at the Panel Colorizer plasmoid.*
Edit: Oh, forgot that you want to also change the opacity of the plasmoids too - but as far as I know there is no “easy” way to do that but editing the svg files that are used to draw the plasmoids. Another reason I too think relying on SVG to draw panels and plasmoids in Plasma is a travesty and they should use QML for that.
* Yes, I still call them plasmoids because I still refuse to call them “plasma widgets”
I want to know what it is that specific reason you need PS?
I have always heard not to use antivirus on Linux
I’ve never heard anything like that, and if it’s true it’s really bad advice, to be honest. It’s not that you shouldnt’ use an antivirus on Linux, but an extra of security is not bad because shit happens and with its popularity increasing Linux can face security challenges in the future.
Still if you know what you’re doing you can do just fine without an antivirus.
I suspect there’s something big going on that won’t make it as easy as you’re thinking. I’d bet it’s the same reason they haven’t been able to bring one-wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop back since KDE4. They focused on Activities and worked really hard on that trying to make it a thing but it seems most people didn’t really cared about it, and almost forgot about virtual workspaces in the process
I know all of that, like I have submitted patches and filed bugs against both gtkfilechooser and kde’s file chooser, and all of that you mention stil doesn’t take out that the purpose of the save dialog is to save files instead of listing them and OP’s request is really odd and can backfire in the future - you’d still want to save HTMLs with their file extension, even in Linux, for a reason.
That is definitely up to librewolf as it intends to, ahem, save a document as HTML. Librewolf is setting that somehow, most possibly it’s hardcoded so I doubt there is a way to change that in its settings or whatever.
Besides I don’t think the purpose of the save dialog is to list files as an actual filemanager would.
I think it’s better for Linux to grow its base organically and the best advertisement for it is its own quality. But maybe that’s just me.
Think about a linux installation on a removable usb drive or a CD or DVD.
You won’t install Linux directly in your hard drive or whatever but in a removable device.
With it you can boot your laptop in it and use it almost as if it was actually installed on your laptop. It will let you check for hardware compatibility and that sort of thing. Also it won’t be as smooth as if it was actually installed on your laptop but for the looks of it even that way you would notice a huge difference with whatever you have installed on your laptop right now.
There are many linux flavors to test, and maybe people around here can give you better examples, but at the tip of my tongue right now there’s ubuntu or fedora, which have great hardware support by default.