This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2

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This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2
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I don't really get why the KDE guys still insist on this atrocious lack of padding / spacing between UI elements. Even Microsoft figured this out by now.

Yes, I can't begin to express how much I love 5 cm of whitespace between every setting on Windows Settings pages.

Thanks, Microsoft.

Because you can customize all of that

Defaults matter, most people never bother customizing.

Agreed. The great defaults in Plasma definitely are a major draw for me.

Skill issue

Yeah sorta. First you gotta know what the problem is, good luck getting the average user to figure out the UI looks off because of the padding. Then you gotta know where and how you need to change it to make it better.

Customizing is cool for power users that like to fiddle with their settings, however it can't replace good defaults; not that I have anything against the defaults in this case...

Some people (like me) like having a more compact layout

It seems that KDE spend 100% of the development time rounding corners and 0% fixing the multitude of crippling crashes and bugs that plague the software making it unusable for daily computing.

I don't think this organisation has its priorities straight.

0% fixing the multitude of crippling crashes and bugs that plague the software making it unusable for daily computing.

You say this in the comments of a blogpost where they are precisely doing that

Lots of people seem to be using it fine daily

Maybe you need to switch distro and check your hardware

Or if you're getting lots of crashes, contribute code or money to get them addressed. Otherwise it's clear your priorities aren't straight