[HN Gopher] Mondrian - KDE Plasma desktop inspired by Piet Mondr...
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Mondrian - KDE Plasma desktop inspired by Piet Mondrian's paintings
Author : leonry
Score : 132 points
Date : 2023-11-05 08:37 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| thanatos519 wrote:
| I kind of expected it to include tiled window management :)
| rpastuszak wrote:
| Hehe, same here :)
|
| I mean we can have perfectly rendered floating cubes with
| wobbly windows that get a Viking funeral when you close them.
| Surely, a Mondrian TWM is a possibility!
| v3ss0n wrote:
| Use while as kwin replacement, it is so good and written in
| python, works well with plasma
| boomskats wrote:
| Do you have a link?
| hnlmorg wrote:
| kwin does support tiled window management. I've never tried it
| personally so cannot vouch for how good it is but if you're a
| tiling WM fan, it's probably safe to assume that you'd favour
| something that doesn't include a full blown desktop
| environment.
| indymike wrote:
| Turn on Krohnkite under Kwin scripts and you have exactly that.
| voxadam wrote:
| Now do cubism.[0]
|
| I'd ask for something in the vein of Escher's Relativity[1] but
| I'm not entirely sure how useful the result would be.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism
|
| [1] https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.54256.html
| senectus1 wrote:
| would a dark theme ruin this look?
| sherry-sherry wrote:
| It comes with a dark theme. https://www.pling.com/p/1404056/
| tmtvl wrote:
| A dark theme ruins any look.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| That's really fun. I'm not sure if form and function meet,
| though. It's almost like desktop dazzle camo.
| szszrk wrote:
| How, on Earth, can this still have icons with more readable
| meaning than Google app icons that were refactored a few years
| ago...
| gumballindie wrote:
| Because linux is made by engineers, google products are made by
| product managers.
| jadbox wrote:
| KDE is now my daily desktop driver. It's great now that it also
| has basic window tiling support built in.
| littlecranky67 wrote:
| Nitpicking, but why is font rendering still broken on modern
| Linux? In the screenshot, there are clearly issues with letter-
| spacing in the words "Salir" and "Equipo" in the lower left
| corner.
| whalesalad wrote:
| I see it too. I daily drive KDE with the Inter font set
| globally and everything looks great for me. It will depend on
| certain UI widgets and the fonts you choose. Some of the open
| source stuff is not perfect because it was created by someone
| merely scratching an itch for fun and not a professional
| designer.
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Thanks I'll try that font set. KDE has been overly converting
| stuff to ligatures in the last update 5.27.8 I think.
|
| So "fi" now becomes a character with the two letters together
| and it's really annoying.
| kylebenzle wrote:
| Its amazing how so many of us have converged on KDE. It feels
| like a real google-like moment where all the tech people I
| knew started using google for a year or two before everyone
| else caught on.
|
| If I could buy stock in KDE Id have 1/2 my net worth in it,
| KDE to the moon :)
| tapia wrote:
| I don't have that impression. But maybe I'm just in my
| Sway-bubble :)
| MegaDeKay wrote:
| To be fair, those screenshots are three years old so there may
| have been rendering improvements since then. Quality can often
| depend on the selected font as well. A comment in another post
| from yesterday stated that Noto Sans is currently used by
| default in KDE and while it might have some issues, the breadth
| of the font solves other problems.
| michaelmrose wrote:
| The most obvious answer is that it isn't broken on developers
| systems or indeed on most systems.
| euroderf wrote:
| Oh please let there be something similar for macos!
| speed_spread wrote:
| Does it include a Piet interpreter so that you can actually _run
| your desktop_?
|
| https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
| agent327 wrote:
| The painter is named "Mondriaan", with two a's.
| Tao3300 wrote:
| No. It's one A. He changed it.
| agent327 wrote:
| I never heard that story before, but you are indeed correct.
| I stand corrected.
| MegaDeKay wrote:
| Does this work well with the latest Plasma desktop? It was last
| updated three years ago and there is a comment from two years ago
| asking "With all the visual changes in the Plasma iterations will
| you update the theme a bit to incorporate those changes?"
|
| At the very least, I'm thinking that general improvements in
| Plasma and KDE in general would improve some of the font
| rendering, consistency, and other nitpicks some other comments
| here are bringing up.
| thih9 wrote:
| Could we add (2020) to the title?
|
| > Last changelog: 1.0, 3 years ago
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Hmm not a fan. But great that KDE is so themeable.
|
| I'm more of a fan of eliverlara's colourful desktops, though mine
| is more vanilla.
| 9point6 wrote:
| Flashbacks to the .NET 1.x/2.x default winform icons
| thebigspacefuck wrote:
| I think Mondrian is cliche at this point. Building developers
| think it's culture and it's easy to pull off since everything is
| squares so I see them theming apartment building and schools like
| this. It's like the Cool S of architecture to me. I understand
| why someone made this theme, because it's easy and seems
| cultured, and if you're genuinely into Mondrian's art, then go
| for it, but I always cringe a little when I see it now.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| It's a cool minimalist aesthetic, regardless of how "cultured"
| it is or isn't. To say that it's cliche is really just to say
| that it's popular and recognisable, which seems to me like a
| good reason to incorporate it into a desktop theme.
| Tams80 wrote:
| All these years and different flavours, and there's still
| something 'not right' with all Linux UIs.
|
| Font rendering is one issue, but there's something else that I
| can't quite put my finger on.
| Tainnor wrote:
| It's entirely subjective. For me, most Linux UIs have a charm
| that I'm not seeing in Apple or Microsoft UIs. Those are often
| "too clean" or "too polished" for me. I'm not saying that font
| issues shouldn't be fixed, but it doesn't bother me that much.
| For what's it worth, I also really liked the aesthetic of macOS
| pre-X.
| hamburglar wrote:
| There are lots of things. One that comes immediately to mind is
| the fact that if you apply any Linux desktop "themes" you are
| actually pretty likely to end up in situations where certain
| software is hard to use because they have components or cursors
| or some weird stuff that was never tested with a variety of
| desktop themes, so parts of them end up with black text on a
| #020202 background or buttons drawn with a hardcoded background
| color or whatever. Since there is no actual _cohesive_ theming
| environment, the splintered miasma of theming environments
| means there is effectively none that's useful. This is,
| unfortunately, the nature of guerilla software development, and
| the reason why, as awesome as it is, it's never taking over the
| desktop.
| conceptme wrote:
| Did you ever try windows? There are loads of weird ui things
| going on there. Mac also has it's quircks but fonts usually do
| look decent.
| lannisterstark wrote:
| >Did you ever try windows? There are loads of weird ui things
| going on there
|
| I mean, "Windows does it badly too" isn't exactly a very pro-
| Linux point.
| michaelmrose wrote:
| Linux is perfectly capable of good font rendering. A lot of
| people dont care/cant tell and show off screenshots in which
| they are intending to show off their theme/backgrounds/colors
| and are only unintentionally show off the fact that their
| choice of fonts and settings they tweaked for no reason is
| subjectively or objectively worse than default.
| Klonoar wrote:
| Padding and spacing is 90% of the issue for me. KDE is worse
| than Gnome in this regard.
| bee_rider wrote:
| There is also a Mondriaan tools for partitioning and reordering
| sparse matrices.
|
| I wonder if he knew his style would be so soothing to
| technologists.
|
| The theme should sneak a couple flowers in, though.
| evanjrowley wrote:
| I appreciate the Mondrian aesthetic.
|
| Has anyone noticed that the High Contrast theme for Google Chrome
| uses the same colors?
|
| GMK Mondrian is my most-used keycaps set for my custom keyboards:
| https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86616.0
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