On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:19 -0400 Ranbir m3freak@thesandhufamily.ca wrote:
In GNOME, the font used is bigger, the window borders are thicker, buttons are bigger and there just seems to be more padding around everything. I don't understand why windows in GNOME have such a thick top bar. The Windows GUI in comparison is tighter and more compact (overall).
It's obviously a stylistic choice that GNOME has made. I just find it bulky and almost cartoonish. It's a clean look, for sure, but huge.
Did any of that help in understanding what I meant?
Makes sense. I don't use Gnome because I like the minimal desktop experience, and I am not a power user. I have been using LXDE, even though it is officially deprecated. I recently gave LXQT a try, and it seems to have a conflict with LXDE (probably the window manager, since LXDE is GTK and LXQT is qt), because after I tuned it, I couldn't restart LXDE with my main user. I decided to just keep using LXQT as my main desktop. I still use LXDE for other logins / users. My point here is that every desktop requires tuning to make it optimal for a user, and they have the tools to do so. In LXQT they are mostly accessed through preferences -> Appearance (I remember since I used them recently :-) )
I would be very surprised if Gnome doesn't have ways to tune the look and feel of their desktop if both LXDE and LXQT, minimal desktops, do. And I think the same would apply to XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate, and KDE.