KDE is fully based on graphics accelerated drawing, it is expected AFAIK. MATE is mostly software-rendered unless extended with Compiz.
Basically, yeah. They can all be made to look and feel identical to each other, and their functionalities are supersets of MacOS launcher functionality set.
KDE and MATE support all XFCE does, but they have each their own community driven ecosystem of extensions that are not cross-supported:
- KDE has https://store.kde.org/browse , and non-federated too
- MATE has a variety of non-federated plugins with no centralized-store like Compiz (which has it's own plugin ecosystem https://www.compiz-fusion.org/wiki_subdomain/welcome.html), and more
KDE is fully based on graphics accelerated drawing, it is expected AFAIK. MATE is mostly software-rendered unless extended with Compiz.
Basically, yeah. They can all be made to look and feel identical to each other, and their functionalities are supersets of MacOS launcher functionality set.