As a Gnome user, a expansion of that background apps think that properly replaces Appindicators!

KDE with GNOME design or GNOME with KDE functionality.

Consistency between all elements, apps and other things.

Still waiting for a DE that's looks and acts like i3/sway but takes care of everything under the hood like monitor config, shortcuts for brightness, volume etc. Essentially everything Gnome or KDE does.

Theming, controlled one central place.

This goes for both Gnome (GTK, Qt, Gnome Shell) and Sway (GTK, Qt, Sway, Rofi, Waybar...)

Actual proper touch support, which includes a decent built-in keyboard (looking at you KDE...).

I love 2-in-1's, but I do wish touch support would go all the way. It's like... 70-80% there, with Gnome having a good keyboard and KDE having the better touch support overall. But it just needs to go the final stretch to make it a good experience.

Well to wayland work with nvidia

Dunno, KDE Plasma has it all. I would not mind some design improvements, but that is what Plasma 6 will bring. I just need to wait :)

Configurable touchpad gestures on Plasma. And a non-nonsense gesture to open the overview effect (waiting for Plasma 6, already done :)

Well this isn't a DE thing but I would like good ray tracing and the new frame gen support for my AMD GPU.

Better trackpad support on KDE on Wayland. I use multi-finger gestures all the time on my MacBook, and my System76 laptop supports them on Windows, but the only gesture that works on Linux is two-finger scrolling.

Working Screensharing from first boot lmao

Tabbed windows like Haiku has. I love that feature so much but I've only ever seen it on tiling WMs on Linux

All the Wayland stuff related to gaming in GNOME.

As a new linux user, I would like KDE to fix their trackpad gestures because they suck. Please copy Windows or macOS. And I want fractional scaling in GNOME without everything looking blurry.

Ability to pin applications to the taskbar depending on which virtual desktop/workspace you are in. For example, I'd like a coding desktop that just has an ide, browser, and terminal.

I'm on a tiling WM. If I want a specific feature, I make it happen.

a better on screen keyboard for gnome

• wayland on xfce & cinnamon
• not exactly DE, but wayland greeter on sddm

Ability to run Android apps.

Just install it and not have to care about anything system related. Just keep out of my way and let me do what I need to do. Linux, Windows, MacOS, the operating system should not be an end, but a mean.

If you need to update, just do it and don't bother me. I plug something, just show it to me. Something is proprietary? I don't care, just want it to work...

I'm just mostly waiting for Plasma 6 so I can use all the Wayland goodies it comes with.

Another thing I'm looking forward to is Wine-Wayland to be ready.

Why's there an AI image attached to this question?

Using Mate, Variable refresh rate VRR, Wayland for Multi Monitor as Xorg is 99% Broken with Multi Monitor, and HDR/Color Profiles.

Desktop per monitor.

Trackpad gestures, KDE (like 3 finger swipes customisation). THEM TO STOP MOVING AROUND THE SETTINGS.

Better support for gaming laptops with both igpu and dedicated gpus like in windows so that I can stop having to reboot when I want to go from portable mode to gaming mode

The ability to easily resize scrollbars, KDE.

We had them right for so long.