• Pros:
  1. system trays applet already works out of the box (still customizable to some extend at least more than gnome system trays)
  2. very good support for Wayland and VIDIA GPUs
  3. easy and quick to customize and you don’t have to deal with CSS if you don’t have much time to waste
  4. better integrated with KDE’s softwares (Kdenlive, KDE connect, Konsole, Kate, Elisa…) which is my opinion some of the best softwares for Linux even better than Windows’s in some cases
  5. friendly community (mostly)
  • Cons:
  1. you have to use KDE with Krohnkite
  • KRAW@linux.communityEnglish
    21·
    15 hours ago

    Biggest con of KDE + Krohnkite (to me) is no text-based config. I really have no desire to pour through the GUI to set up all my keybinds. I’ve tried this setup before, and honestly I mostly like it. However anytime I want to change something I just hate having to click through a menu with my mouse. The search bar helps, but often you’ll spend a lot of time guessing what the devs decided to name a setting. I went back to Sway and have no regrets. Though I’ll admit I wish there was something that was basically Sway with the benefits you mentioned here.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I can’t really sell this as a solution, as it requires quite a lot more involvement than a simple configuration file should, but I use Nix Home Manager with Plasma Manager for this.

      This is part of the tooling you’d use on NixOS, but you can use it on other distros, too, and it generally works fine (although I’m not sure, if the current version of Plasma Manager still supports Plasma 5, in case you’re still on a distro with that).

      Basically, it allows you to define e.g. keyboard shortcuts like this:

          shortcuts = {
      ksmserver = {
        "Lock Session" = [
          "Screensaver"
          "Meta+Ctrl+Alt+L"
        ];
      };

      kwin = {
        "Expose" = "Meta+,";
        "Switch Window Down" = "Meta+J";
        "Switch Window Left" = "Meta+H";
        "Switch Window Right" = "Meta+L";
        "Switch Window Up" = "Meta+K";
      };
    };

      It then fucks up the formatting, so that it looks like KDE expects, and throws it into ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc.
      (KDE does actually have a text-based config, it’s just borderline unusable.)

      Well, and you can do this with lots of other Plasma options, too. Here’s their official example: https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager/blob/trunk/examples/home.nix