Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Dr. What to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 05 2026 06:55 am
There's a new term now: "Getting Gnomed".
It's when you install one application but it "needs" nearly all the Gnome environment loaded to run, whether you use Gnome or not.
Yeah, I've noticed some Linux distros have packages for Gnome support libraries. There are also KDE support libraries as well.
And for UI themes, I've noticed that even if you aren't using Gnome, some of the installed applications might be using GTK (the Gnome toolkit); there are a lot of GTK UI themes that will get applied to those GTK applications, but naturally, applications not using GTK won't get that theme. So you'll have apps with one UI theme and other apps with a different UI theme.
Years ago, I used to like Gnome 2, and when running in Gnome, all applications would look consistent with the same theme. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore with other desktop environments.
One thing I've noticed is that KDE Plasma uses Qt, which is a cross-platform GUI framework that I've heard is considered one of the best and most popular (and wxWidgets being another one). Qt is available for Windows too, so theoretically, a program written using the Qt GUI framework (probably especially with C++) would probably be able to be built and run for both Linux and Windows with few modifications. I've done some C++ development using wxWidgets and that was one of the advantages of wxWidgets as well.
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