- Pros:
- system trays applet already works out of the box (still customizable to some extend at least more than gnome system trays)
- very good support for Wayland and VIDIA GPUs
- easy and quick to customize and you don’t have to deal with CSS if you don’t have much time to waste
- better integrated with KDE’s softwares (Kdenlive, KDE connect, Konsole, Kate, Elisa…) which is my opinion some of the best softwares for Linux even better than Windows’s in some cases
- friendly community (mostly)
- Cons:
- you have to use KDE with Krohnkite
What web browser are you using in the screenshot? Kind of looks like a flavour of FF but I’ve never seen tabs in the address bar like that before.
TLDR:
Pros: is a DE
Cons: is a DE
I wanted to give tiling a chance. I decided to use Krohnkite for a week to give it a chance. At first I didn’t care for tiling but quickly got into it and now I love it. Sometimes to really know if something is going to work for you or not, you have to give it some time. I’ve used this approach for other things (not all work out) but for Krohnkite it did for me. Also, don’t forget to check out all the Krohnkite options.
Tiling WMs are amazing I wish windows/mac also had them.
Isn’t Krohnkite unmaintained?
edit: mb, looks like there’s a fork here: https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite
softwares
Was this always a word? I’ve heard and seen it a lot recently but I could have sworn the plural of software was still software.
The only time I’ve seen it close to being pluralized differently was “warez”
I switched from a Qtile tiling window manager to KDE with Krohnkite. It does the job of handling the windows. The auto tiling aspect is the only thing I miss in any regular window management. The reason why I switched to KDE back then was, a problem with Qtile and because KDE was good on the Wayland front. In fact, it was the only viable option in my opinion for a desktop environment. I was also using lot of KDE applications anyway, so it made sense.
Cons: you have to use KDE with Krohnkite
I don’t see this as an con. Maybe you could argue that Krohnkite is not a core system functionality and we rely on some community member. BTW that was the biggest issue why I switched away from GNOME years ago, because too much core functionality was community dependent (and breaking). The KDE team themselves should integrate such a functionality. Auto tiling reaches was never more popular and KDE itself has some tiling functionality builtin, just not auto tiling.
Like Qtile had, I like we have many layouts to choose and cycle from. My 4th desktop is set to everything float; no tiling. I could not stand a auto tiler that has only one builtin layout logic.
But there are some couple problems using Krohnkite. It’s not as configurable as I am used to with Qtile off course. And getting rid of the borders and having colored borders in KDE for focused applications and such, was a pain to setup. KDE really need some builtin functionality for that.
Depends on who you ask it may or may not be a con, I myself have been using it only for a week by now and for the most part it works very well it especially for a Linux newbie like me, not having to edit a config file with text editor but with GUI instead is pretty nice ( I made that gtk theme and floorp theme in the screenshot almost from scratch and it’s a huge pain in the ass, dont know if CSS is a bad language or not but it probably make me hate CSS ). So I guess it’s a pro for me
The con beats all pros.
I really like the preset layouts too, I often find myself using the stair layout on smaller screens so I can quickly and easily see what’s open in a clear layout but still use most of the screen for an application. Monocle is good too! Just in case anyone is passing on this because they don’t like traditional tiling