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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | source
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Zak ◴[18 Sep 25 13:57 UTC] No.45289770[source]▶
I've been a happy KDE user for years, but I recently discovered that Gnome is surprisingly good on a tablet. KDE is usable, but feels about as touch-native as Windows does. Gnome is easily as good a tablet experience as an iPad.

There's only one fly in the ointment: Gnome's onscreen keyboard is both terrible and difficult to replace.

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1. sho_hn ◴[18 Sep 25 14:05 UTC] No.45289872[source]▶
Maybe of interest: One of our recently-elected community-wide goals is to improve the Input story, and we started a new on-screen keyboard project called Plasma Keyboard in context of that. It's a bit experimental and a very early effort, but maybe something promising for you to track in some way.
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2. Zak ◴[18 Sep 25 14:10 UTC] No.45289934[source]▶
I'll try it out. I have both Gnome and KDE on my tablet, but haven't taken much time to try to customize KDE to be a good tablet experience.
3. Zak ◴[18 Sep 25 14:37 UTC] No.45290253[source]▶
Much better than the Gnome OSK despite signs that it's early (I got some transparent flickering over the panel).

I'd like it to have more punctuation and special characters available as long presses on letters, and for it to have a terminal mode with arrows, tab, ctrl, etc....

This comment was typed on plasma-keyboard.

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4. sho_hn ◴[18 Sep 25 15:10 UTC] No.45290642[source]▶
Thanks for the feedback!

We have an experiment for the "extended layout for tablet mode" bit parked somewhere, stay tuned.