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Not sure how much of a difference it will make in KDE, but in XFCE adding stem darkening made a serious difference in my systems, and I believe I got that tip from a KDE user.

Create the following file: /etc/environment.d/90font-stem-darkening.conf
with contents of:


FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff ...

banko wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:24 am For a viewer Geeqie https://www.geeqie.org/

Geeqie is a fine choice, but isn't it GTK based?

The only drawback of the Nerd Fonts is that they can take significant additional space, some of them even over 100 MB.

One more idea regarding default fonts.

If that's not a problem a one of the Nerd Fonts could be installed by default:
https://www.nerdfonts.com/

My favourites: Iosevka Extended, FiraCode, Hack, JetBrainsMono.

It could be also set as the default monospace/terminal font.

This could make it easier ...

Did some quick preliminary studies on Ark, ArQiver, and Peazip.

Archiver Time to open 6.4GB archive Time to extract a 75M file from test archive
Ark: 2m10s Instant extraction
ArQiver: 15s Instant extraction
Peazip: 7.5s 2.5s extraction

Notes:
- Peazip has the most features by far. Startup is a ...

If it was possible to keep up with the latest PeaZip (Qt6) releases it would be great to have it as the default archiver.

Another thing, GNOME has announced a change of its default font to Adwaita Sans:
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1iejugc/after_15_years_of_cantarell_the_default_gnome ...

I think the preference for MX-KDE, though not set in stone, is for the programs to be Qt.

ArQiver is Qt.


That's a nice timing, because Arqiver has been released as version 1.0 not that long ago:
https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver

There is also PeaZip which I find very good:
https://github.com ...

markol wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:51 am

Screenshot: Flameshot

Flameshot doesn't work well on Wayland
I had to move back to Spectacle (which works well, but needs some customizing if you're used to Flameshot)

You are right. Until a new, Wayland-compatible version of Flameshot is released, KDE's Spectacle seems to be the best option.

XnView is a proprietary app, it shouldn't be installed by default.

IMHO, having abandoned/unmaintained apps as defaults is generally not the best practice.

Especially when there are maintained alternatives.