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Summary: Judging by what I'm seeing this week in KDE Neon (a sort of testbed or workbench for KDE development), there's an overhaul in the window- and application-specific settings/customisations; it does not appear to prioritise functionality but supposed simplicity

THIS week I decided that, following an update and reboot of KDE Neon, I'd re-configure some applications to behave in a unique way, but I was greeted by a new and unfamiliar GUI. Not only did it not work as expected; I did not find it intuitive and it resulted in several crashes.

"KDE is for advanced users, but it's also suitable for rookies and novices."I totally know what KDE Neon is and recognise what it's for. I knew it when I installed it, so my complaint isn't about stability. It's the interface, which at the moment seems half-baked (semi-cooked) and in no way resembles what KDE3, KDE4 and KDE5 have had. It's looking like an attempt to over-simplify things or copy GNOME, which in turn tries to imitate some stuff from Apple.

KDE is for advanced users, but it's also suitable for rookies and novices. Quite a few people in my family use KDE, and they use it out of choice. Gone are the days of KDE being just "by developers, for developers", but some of these recent changes (in a test distro, KDE Neon) seems not to work, not be made intuitive enough, and feel like work in progress. The video above explains more. ⬆