Your goal is to make KDE the most popular Linux desktop environment.

>>59357722
Easy.

Hire some competent UX designers, sane defaults and ensure that all default KDE applications follow a HIG.

install gentoo

>>59357722
Make it stop crashing so often
Make a guideline of UI rules and make everything follow them
Stop focusing on the abortion of a distro known as KDE neon
Make it much more lighter

>>59357722
Remove all the bloat and add native Windows support. Redesign everything from scratch with a flat theme and usability in mind

>>59357722
1. Stop trying to make it look like windows 10.
2. Recode it so it doesn't shit itself every half hour.

>>59357740
/thread

UNBLOAT

Install Gentoo.

Fork GNOME.

>>59357722
Buy Microsoft and Google and make it the default. They both got away with worse.

Done.

>>59357758
>>59357790
KDE is lighter than Gnome and Unity. What more do you expect?

>>59357827
Actually, I shouldn't exclude Apple, they also did horrid shit... buy them, too.

>>59357840
>lighter than bloate and bloatity
wow, it's nothing.

Give it a cyberpunk do over and let word of mouth do the rest.

>>59357898
>disable composting
>magic and rainbows

>>59357904
>cyberpunk
Windows 10?

>>59357722
Sit back and relax?

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>>59357722
>>59357739

Post it on /r/unixporn
X-post it on /r/pcmasterrace and watch winfags get angry

>>59357739
>>59357758
>>59357763
Where do we find these UX designers? Maybe there can be a fundraiser to hire people who know what they're doing.

>>59358377
Should we set up a gofundme acc?

>>59358377
Literally anyone can design a better UI in paint

>>59357722
remove "features" until it runs with a snae amount of system resources, then start remodeling everything. Move away from the flat design default, remove as many animations and pointless fru fru design choices as possible. Essentially strip it down as much as possible and redesign whatever we have to so that we can start from a solid foundation. A house built on sand will slide and crumble.

Once it's lean enough to run on a toaster, start re-implementing features with a focus on sane resource use and usability. Bring in teams of QA testers if possible from the community to see what they are most productive using. Make the UI team a meritocracy based on this feedback and an internal voting structure. Bring in an auditing team to constantly check if the ui team is keeping its minimalist requirements and to optimize code where possible. Nothing should ever reach the end user without going through the designers, then qa, then back to designers(repeat as required), then auditing and optimization.

Then start an ad campaign on 4chan and give canonical the succ so they will take it over unity.

>>59357722
>Your goal is to make KDE the most popular Linux desktop environment.
But why? It was always literally a bad copy of Windows.

KYS.

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>>59357904
what do you even mean by cyberpunk interface? something like deus ex? i mean i understand where your comming from but until now i have only seen movie or game interfaces in cyberpunk style and thats like a prob not a whole UI with guidelines and such

>>59358377
Don't need them. Just follow material design guidelines and the experience show be good.

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>>59357904
>>59359059

or something like this?

Honestly, why stop at KDE? Linux can be taken along for this ride as well. Assuming this is a new distro featuring KDE.

KDE:

* Create HIG design standard, enforced by KDE Frameworks
* Make design consistent throughout DE.
* Port to Wayland
* Focus on fixing bugs, instead of adding new features
* Global Menu
* Nuke the Cashew
* Unify desktop and KDE settings
* Refine and re-organize settings in general, simplification is key here.
* ABI/APIs must stabilize, provide backward compat
* Tweak animation speeds/effects
* Redesign KMenu (or whatever it's called)

Linux Base:

* Apps must be packaged in a custom format similar to Snaps.
* New package format integrates SELinux profiles to enhance security
* Old package formats supported by automatic package conversion system
* Officially support a limited subset of hardware to ensure quality, reduce code maintenance and codebase size
* 64-bit applications only, ASLR & PIE support required
* new OS releases are infrequent, favor stability over features
* good documentation
* first party support for popular softwares


This would go on for pages, but it's all wishful thinking anyway.

>>59359469
Why can't apps be packaged like a glorified deb file? Just store your files in /usr/bin, /usr/share, and /usr/share/applications and boom.

>>59357722
Get a better logo.

>>59357722
>Find a profitable business model compatible with the GPL
>Hire actual designers
>Beat Ubuntu at their own game

>>59357722
make it less heavy. 20℅ cpu use w/ 6700k on default

>>59358555
Sounds like more jerking off than actually improving the system. People running shitboxes already have plenty of other options that are far better than a full DE anyway.

>>59357722
kill myself

nice dubdubs

sage

>>59357722
Ship KDE Neon with Apparmor/SELinux and itll be perfect.

>>59361249
It's not a matter of pandering to people with low end setups, it's a matter of having a usable and extendable system going forward. More features and more pretty != better user experience. Useful features and functional form do. Besides, a highly popular DE will need to run on a variety of machines, not just high end ones.

make the file picker show thumbnails by default

>>59361157
what? I have KDE and I got a bunch of shit on.. mpv, steam, chromium, skype, wire, discord, and I have 6% usage

Why use anything other than Xfce?

>>59357777
Quads don't lie

>>59357722
Id quit the task
Kde is hopeless

>>59362077
>>59362167
It's like building on quicksand.

>>59357722
fix the qt ports for firefox
fix the file chooser in firefox without hacks
unify workspace / window decoration / toolkit themes

done

>>59357722
install gentoo

>>59357722
Unbloat it. Fuck KDE it's so fucking sluggish.

>>59362180
tfw firefox takes like half the gtk theme and shit yet still has shitty file chooser

install macos or windows so my computer actually works

>>59357722
sorry, I do not work with bloatware.

>>59357810

zis

>>59357722
I don't know much about KDE, but whenever I used it, it felt like a draft of some local talent-less designer.

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The suggestions in this thread are so stupid.
You could make a DE from ground up in the time you fix KDE.

>How to make it the most popular DE
Marketing. Hire a few pajeets to shill it and done. It's the most popular DE now

>>59357777
CHECKED

KDE is getting there.

Make sure my underlying api and all other shit does not change for the next year in order to:

Clean up that application mess.
Unify and incorporate functionality
- Some UI's have 90's design made by programmers
- There are 3-5 applications per type doing exactly the same thing but looking slightly different
- Some applications do not fit together visually
- Tree view everything is probably not the solution.

Example:
1 Video player, 1 Audio player. That is all thats needed, not 3 of each.
If you want different UI complexities or views make it a feature, not a different application.

Office applications ? Nuke em, work with real office application developers to make their software work with KDE.

>>59357722
Pay companies to sell computers with Kubuntu or whatever

>>59357722
hire a professional team of testers to maintain the codebase and ensure it runs properly, hire a team of devs to assist major distros with intergration issues.

>>59357722

Just have some sane defaults and I'm in.

>>59359469
you literlly have no clue do you?
>* Apps must be packaged in a custom format similar to Snaps.

wtf? what is flatpack?

your whole post is a waste of space most of the stuff is a uninformed at best or retarded wishlist at its worst. kys

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>>59357722
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

why hasn't /g/ made it's own linux distro?

people here could make something amazing if they wanted

>>59363994
They do like to think they could make something better, but they can't.

>>59363994
im waiting for TempleOS

>>59364034
>schizophrenia os

>>59363994
i made the logo already we are just waiting for the new DE design

>>59363994
It has, and it failed. It was this autistic riced-by-default distro till everyone realized having the same WM with the same terminal with the same color scheme with the same font as everyone else isn't unique.

>>59357739
>>59358377
What the fuck is UX? Do you mean UI?

>>59364066
>User eXperience
>User Interface

>>59364079
So it should be UE then.

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>>59364326
I'm not the Oxford Dictionary, take it to someone else.