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  • latte-dock

    Replacement dock for Plasma desktops, providing an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids

    • There's a popular app for KDE called Latte dock[1]. It replaces your bar with a highly configurable dock that was inspired by OSX.

    [1] https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock

  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    • > Gnome's Wayland implementation is much better then KDE at this moment

    Agreed, with a caveat— Gnome's Mutter compositor for Wayland has bugs. It does not support server side rendered window decorations while KDE does. This means that the title bars for Alacritty[0] terminal emulator and the mpv[1] video player are ugly and not so functional. This is an intentional decision by the GNOME team[2]. Also the screen locks while watching videos on mpv because Mutter does not support the idle-inhibit protocol, although work is currently being done on this[3].

    [0]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/5956

    [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/7186

    [2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217

    [3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/111

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  • mpv

    🎥 Command line video player

    • > Gnome's Wayland implementation is much better then KDE at this moment

    Agreed, with a caveat— Gnome's Mutter compositor for Wayland has bugs. It does not support server side rendered window decorations while KDE does. This means that the title bars for Alacritty[0] terminal emulator and the mpv[1] video player are ugly and not so functional. This is an intentional decision by the GNOME team[2]. Also the screen locks while watching videos on mpv because Mutter does not support the idle-inhibit protocol, although work is currently being done on this[3].

    [0]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/5956

    [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/7186

    [2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217

    [3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/111

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