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I wish someone would make a tiling desktop environment instead of only a window manager to make them easy to use for all without tweaking because they are the future of the DEs.

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[–] ducking_donuts@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KDE has pretty good tiling functionality these days, not much need in using another WM unless you have a very specific workflow in mind

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I once saw a video which showed off the built-in Plasma tiling feature and complained that it could not have been developed by a tiling WM user, since it was very inflexible and mouse focused. He could not use it with a keyboard, which kind of defeats the purpose of tiling in the first place.

[–] toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I really got my hopes up there because I love how customizable kde is and combining it with i3wm would blow me away

[–] ducking_donuts@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone’s workflow is different and it could very well be that the plasma tiling features weren’t a good match for the author of that video.

My tiling needs are pretty simple and I rarely use anything more complicated than a vertical split.

There were also major changes in the plasma tiling earlier this year so if that video predates the concerns no longer apply.

You’d probably have to give it a try to see if all the features you need nicely work with a keyboard.