KDE Plasma is a fantastic desktop environment. It is popular for its feature set that allows a user to customize the experience, add widgets, and multiply the usefulness of the desktop with various elements.
When you get started, you already have certain widgets in place to access things. You can customize/remove them or add some more pre-installed ones. In either case, you can also download widgets from the KDE store and try them out.
Here, I mention some of my favorite picks among the default, pre-installed, and downloadable widgets.
Neat, there were a couple I hadn't heard of. One of the things I like to do is to use the Icons-only Task Manager on a panel that's been shrunk to the smallest size possible. Voila, an application dock.
I had them ducking too for a while but it messed with full screen apps enough I put it back to always up
Panel colourizer is the only new thing I found. Will try. Thanks.
I want to like Plasma, really I do, but even when I haven't chosen it as a DE it overheats my laptop because Baloo File Extractor just won't fucking quit consuming a CPU core for what seems like hours a day.
I get it; pre-emptive aggressive indexing of files now to save CPU cycles in the future. But I have a lot of files and that future never comes for me.
