I’m not sure what you mean. Lack of desktop icons is only valuable to people who want that (I don’t, and I remove them on my Plasma systems).
Gnome has a minimize button, and you need only turn it on in Tweaks > Windows.
You can change themes in Tweaks > Appearance, and you can install themes by script or by manually dropping the files where they need to go (something you sometimes have to do on Plasma, too).
You can further adjust themes with extensions or scripts. Unless you change themes often, quick theme swapping is not a feature everyone needs or wants. How often are people doing this IRL?
I can right click all my menu and dash/dock icons and get an app-specific context menu, so I’m not sure what you mean with this gripe.
Systray is one of the things I don’t like about Plasma, and I wish they’d find a different solution. It’s bad enough on Windows.
I run both DEs on different systems, and they’re both good and bad at different things, but they both have comparable feature sets. Their workflows are different, yet you can do virtually all the same things in each.
I think they might be referring to icons next to menu items in the right click menu.
I think those icons can be handy sometimes, but I find them to be massively overused in KDE especially, to the point that it feels visually overwhelming sometimes. Having zero icons at all in GNOME might be the other extreme, but I appreciate how clean it looks.
Blender using icons strategically to visually group related items is probably the best of both worlds.
I run both DEs on different systems, and they’re both good and bad at different things, but they both have comparable feature sets. Their workflows are different, yet you can do virtually all the same things in each.
Minimizing is a tweak??
I’ll stick to xfce.
No, the minimize button is, but enjoy Xfce
I think they might be referring to icons next to menu items in the right click menu.
I think those icons can be handy sometimes, but I find them to be massively overused in KDE especially, to the point that it feels visually overwhelming sometimes. Having zero icons at all in GNOME might be the other extreme, but I appreciate how clean it looks.
Blender using icons strategically to visually group related items is probably the best of both worlds.
Oh, that makes more sense. I appreciate the clarity!