I use KDE on my desktop because I don’t care about maximizing screen real estate in that context.
my whole screen real estate banter was in response to
I make XFCE as Unity-like as possible, which I believe is the best interface for limited screen real estate.
Any DE can become “hotkey-first.”
Yeah… no. Maybe i’m just too picky about my preferences, but ctrl+alt+t, alt+f4, and other “wonderful” hotkeys that require either a huge hand stretch, or two hands to press them, don’t sound like “keyboard-first” to me. Neither does setting up said hotkeys either with a gui utility, not really meant to be used with both hands on the keyboard, or editing an ugly auto-generated json or xml config.
Of course, all of this comes down to how one’s workflow is.
Of course, it’s nothing more than a matter of personal preference. I’m not trying to sell you anything, or prove your stance wrong. I just like talking about this stuff. Tell me if i’m being annoying.
I don’t ever see myself wanting to scroll my desktop or deal with windows auto-tiling.
The whole point of tiling/scrolling wms is that you have to deal with less things tho? The ideal goal, philosopher’s stone of those wms, if you may, is to make so that user, after the initial configuration, doesn’t need to concern themself with window positioning and resizing.
Multiple desktops is another example. It’s something just about every DE offers, but I’ve never had a use for it.
That’s because those DEs make it so that using them actually takes effort, because guess what, the default key bindings for them are horrible! On top of that, i’m not sure, but i don’t remember neither XFCE nor Plasma offering any sort of automation around it, (might be wrong tho) whereas in tiling/scrolling world custom rules for automatically assigning certain windows to certain workspaces, or, for instance, opening an app if you switch to a certain empty workspace, is considered a bare minimum. It naturally makes the process of navigating the windows even less chaotic. Basically, it creates a mental model, where you don’t have chaotically alt-tab around or seek anything with your eyes, since you just know where everything is. Your desktop becomes the perfect silent well-oiled machine that gets in your way as little as humanly (machinely?) possible, and it just feels soooo incredibly fucking nice.
i distinctly remember ea constantly doing this with origin accounts. Deepshits forced users to rotate passwords, but didn’t ever feel like notifying the user itself.