What QT software pulls KDE dependencies? AFAIK, only KDE software requires KDE dependencies. There might be a couple of exceptions but it's certainly not "the average QT app". There's a lot of software you wouldn't even know uses QT like PCSX2, Skype, or DaVinci Resolve.
I used to think I didn't have a use case for one either but you know how sitting at your desk takes slightly more than zero effort? Well, that tiny amount of effort made it so whenever I actually sat my ass down, I would end up only playing "heavy" games like Skyrim while ignoring stuff like Bastion, Cuphead, Hollow Night, the LEGO Games, Pacman World, etc. Like, I'm not gonna drag my ass to my office to play Thimbleweed Park. Having a handheld got rid of that mental block and I've finally finished several games I otherwise wouldn't have, like pretty much anything that needs to be emulated. I even started buying games specifically because I wanted to play them on it.
lol somebody woke up on the wrong side of bed. I'm just telling you the reasoning as to why it's done because it's a fun fact. I don't care what you use. Chill.
Sure, but then you're comparing OS with window managers. As far as windows management goes, I honestly prefer the way Mac does it. It actually kinda reminds me to i3wm but friendlier. I even configured Plasma to work somewhat like it. GNOME honestly isn't bad, it just has a couple of deal breakers I'm not willing to deal with and the devs are not willing to fix.
Do you mean the application menu? Not trying to evangelize here, it's just that I almost never see it because Krunner is so integrated with everything in KDE that it feels like the intended way to launch stuff so I find it weird that the application menu bothers you.
If you mean the menus on the applications themselves, fair enough, I guess. I also don't understand why they're still just a regular app menu (File, Edit, etc...) but crammed into a single button.
That really depends on where you draw the line on what is "core functionality". I'd consider a system tray to be core functionality, you apparently don't.
Have you considered that maybe people actually like the thing and wanna use it but can't because of a stupid design choice made by the dev team headquartered all the way inside their own asses?
Yep. I don't even want a proper system tray, just gimme a list with the apps that are still running with their windows closed. They can't even do that.
Tbf, you can maximize by double-clicking the titlebar or dragging the window to the top so the button is kind of redundant. You can also (un)minimize by clicking on the taskbar so the minimize button would too be kind of redundant if GNOME hadn't gotten rid of the fucking task bar.
Yeah, it's almost usable but I suspect most people don't wanna deal with broken extensions every new release. Last time my extensions broke, all I had to do to fix them was changing the target version in the manifest. Clearly, there weren't enough changes to the DE to warrant breaking them and they were just broken on purpose.
Don't even try to say GNOME is a touch screen design. I've used it with a touchscreen, it's just bad design. What bothers me the most is that is close to being good if not for a couple of stupid decisions like having no system tray.
It's fun, though. I also think people charting my astral card or whatever is fun so make of that what you will.