Just dumped GNOME for good! Could use some pointers...

[Ben Bonacci]

Hi Richard and welcome to the KDE community! :)

As for finding places to get pointers, the forum 
(https://discuss.kde.org) and the chat rooms 
(https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#kde-community:kde.org) would be the best 
places to check out. There is also the developers' mailing list 
(https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel) for more technical 
questions.

Regards,

Ben

On 19/9/23 10:41, Richard Troy wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've been a Linux users / sys-admin (and a lot more) since Red Hat 
> 1.2, with years of 'nix experience before that. However, I'm new to 
> KDE and am so glad I switched!
>
> I could write a testimonial about WHY I switched for good, the, oh, 
> 20+ other desktops I evaluated, the two other modern desktops I 
> actually tried (other than GNOME, which I've suffered with since time 
> immemorial), but I'll skip that unless anyone asks about it.
>
> I get it that this list isn't for "technical issues," so instead I'm 
> asking for pointers on _where_ (or how, etc) the best places are to 
> address these technical topics. So, just generally speaking:
>
> 1) I like the Stack Exchange family of web sites with their Q/A format;
>    does the KDE community have something like that?
>
> 2) I have noticed that the GNOME community, such as it is, doesn't
>    actually appear to listen to their user community much - unless, of
>    course, you're a paying customer of Red Hat, which I haven't been 
> for a
>    long time now; Does the KDE community have a place to discuss the
>    bigger-picture issues and creative ideas for direction? I have a 
> lot of
>    perspective, solid feedback, and straight-forward, simple-enough
>    suggestions for some future features that I'd like to put out there
>    somewhere that'd actually be useful.
>
> 3) I probably haven't looked hard enough but is there a road-map of what
>    the current thinking is on the direction of KDE that I can take a look
>    at?
>
> 4) I have a few non-problem issues that I haven't found in any how-to yet
>    that I'd like to address promptly or they'll just drive me nuts.
>
>    In particular and as a perfect example: A number of items to be found
>    in the Launcher's (default?) categories are in the wrong locations and
>    in addition to fixing these, I'd like to add some that are missing. 
> But
>    the "edit" feature is bewildering to say the least! Can I add
>    categories? ...A pointer to something helpful on this particular
>    point would be nice, but in general, is this a place to ask questions
>    like that?
>
> Thank you much,
> Richard

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