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Not sure if I'm a fan of this (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by MellowFellow@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up 😅

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It's like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.

Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.

Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

I don't completely hate MacOS, it's pretty nice IMO.

GNOME instantly gets replaced by KDE Plasma though. With Cosmic also installed for some fun alpha testing.

[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

📎 Looks like you're trying to hold B! Would you like help with that?

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm not sure why people enable any notifications on their desktop in the first place.

[–] jonathan@piefed.social 273 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To be notified of things that they want to know about.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 week ago

"You are technically correct."

"The BEST kind of correct."

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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whenever I start a game on my KDE desktop, the notifications get muted automatically. I have no idea why, because I really don't remember setting it up. Maybe it's a standard feature that was added at some point. It's honestly pretty great though.

[–] Linearity@piefed.au 35 points 1 week ago (6 children)

KDE turns on do not disturb mode when a program is in full screen mode by default.

You can test this by binding DnD to a button (preferable Meta key + unused letter like F), opening a program in full screen mode and toggling DnD.

This feature can be disabled in settings.

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[–] passepartout@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's a default. It also tells me how many notifications I missed after closing the game.

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[–] Cattypat@piefed.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe the notifications for donation on my KDE laptop (running Bazzite) are yearly so... hopefully you won't be seeing it often

[–] Keegen@lemmy.zip 79 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Recent versions of KDE also automatically enable Do Not Disturb mode whenever you launch a full-screen window so you won't get interrupted by a notification anyway! Honestly surprised GNOME doesn't do that as well.

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[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 40 points 1 week ago

Don't be a loser with no defuser!

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