I’d not heard of this, and it actually sums up a lot of my issues. KDE just never felt thought out. Dolphin is basically unusable
KDE Plasma has never had a system like this to organize design around the UI. Because of this, designers haven’t really made a ton of inroads into the system and this limits users in the way that we can deliver design for them. In essence, we designers, were never organized enough to provide a proper, development-ready, graphic design that could be used for Plasma.
Apple abandoned 3rd party quick look plugins a while ago
remote connections suck
and it hides important things like ~/Library inconsistently (it’s not a dot file, why is it hidden?)
Apple added tags and forgot
.DS_Store
But Finder is by far the best file navigator on Windows, Linux, or Mac. You can’t honestly say it’s unusable dogshit. Cmd+G file jump is great, all the file key binds are good, solid view configurations that are all polished, inspectors, etc.
kde is unopinionated because youre meant to opinionate it yourself with your own opinion
KDE is unoppinionated because it’s designed to be a shitty Windows clone.
There isn’t any deep thought about how it feels.
nah theyve talked about their design
like the new WIP Ocean theme
there is deep thought
https://planet.kde.org/andres-betts-2026-05-31-what-even-is-ocean/
Is this what you’re referring to?
I’d not heard of this, and it actually sums up a lot of my issues. KDE just never felt thought out. Dolphin is basically unusable
nah dolphin is peak
one of kdes best apps
No image album view, no column view, no file preview, and the tree view feels like it’s from 20 years ago.
It needs some love, and after using macOS Finder it’s just unusable.
image album view for folders is what the kdes Gwenview image viewer does
i came from macos and i think finder is barely usable dogshit
Finder has issues:
But Finder is by far the best file navigator on Windows, Linux, or Mac. You can’t honestly say it’s unusable dogshit. Cmd+G file jump is great, all the file key binds are good, solid view configurations that are all polished, inspectors, etc.
no way to get the file path of a file or directory