> However, if we're comparing it to a typical web codebase, that's an order of magnitude more dense Well, I disagree. All the examples I could find, for insta

> However, if we're comparing it to a typical web codebase, that's an order of magnitude more dense Well, I disagree. All the examples I could find, for instance in Vue.js, React, etc... had quite a bit more LOC necessary to achieve the same behaviour, when counting JS + CSS + HTML. Even with lambdas, associating a behaviour to an object is still not as nice as just doing `height: width/2` and knowning that the constraint will keep being enforced. > I'm not interested in debating KDE, since... that project stopped being relevant to me around KDE4. Nothing but wasted potential. These certainly were troubled times, but KDE5 is honestly really nice. See the latest release https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12.0.php https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12.0.php > The thing is that it's an archaic viewpoint - one that you're welcome to have, but it'll increasingly be pushed down. Will it ? in the contrary I find that the ricing community is more active than ever :p Ricing was a thing with e16 and blackbox when there were less than 100k linux users two decades ago. Now there are more than a hundred million... it's not going to disappear. Besides, it's sometimes a necessity. Think for instance of all the vision-problem-related enhancements that a coherent desktop theme can provide. > I also don't know anybody who customizes their desktop chrome anymore www.reddit.com/r/unixporn