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> gnome has better Multimedia Tools

I dunno, I really like Cantata (which integrates perfectly with MPD, which has possibly the best music organisation) and Clementine, more than any other music player I've tried. For video I'm very fond of SMPlayer, which is a featureful frontend for MPV. Kdenlive is also really nice (although Davinci Resolve is better, to be fair).

> The only thing/app kde has better is krita.

Really? You're saying Gedit is better than Kate? I don't know about that, friend. Gedit was severely lacking in features last time I tried it. What's the GNOME equivalent to Umbrello anyway? What about the GNOME equivalent to Lokalize? There's just a bunch of KDE apps which I don't know if GNOME has an equivalent to (the opposite is also true, but I'm just challenging your statement).

> (Excluding files from this comparison)

Okay, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

In another comment I also remembered kdenlive. Not even sure what gnome has since I don't edit video.

Gedit (or now gnome-text) is more equivalent of kwrite. Gnome doesn't have an equivalent to kate, me thinks.

Umbrello: https://github.com/gaphor/gaphor

I use smplayer on windows, this is a good app. Does it run on Wayland? And does it have hardware acceleration for decoding? I had issues on Wayland (gnome) with it.

Cantata is abandoned.

Files I excluded because dolphin is better functionally. It wasn't excluded because I want to skew results in my favor, but because there is no discussion. One exception: in dolphin you cannot open files directly from smb:// shares

> One exception: in dolphin you cannot open files directly from smb:// shares

??? Of course you can.

Your comments sound like you installed KDE ontop of a distro that uses gnome by default, missing half the packages.

KIO exposes pretty much every possible protocol (including smb, dav, ftp/sftp/ssh, etc) to every KDE app, including Dolphin, Kate, Gwenview, Krita, Okular, etc.

If you're trying to open SMB files in Gnome apps, ofc, that's not gonna work.

Nope, it was laptop (bare metal), kubuntu or fedora KDE Spin.

Player might have been installed via flatpak though. But I don't remember anymore.

Sounds like your problem was that while KDE supports SMB, your player does not.

While Gnome will use fuse to mount SMB into the actual file system, KDE built supports for protocol like SMB natively into their libraries.

The KDE approach has the advantage that you get native permissions and don't have to mount them into the filesystem, while the gnome approach has better backwards compatibility for third party apps.

That said, KDEs players as well as VLC should have worked. I'm using KDE with SMB daily.

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