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On the contrary, I think GNOME allows people too much freedom to theme and it opens the system up to really broken theming. One of the things I love about Seren
by faissaloo 7y ago
On the contrary, I think GNOME allows people too much freedom to theme and it opens the system up to really broken theming. One of the things I love about Serenity OS is that it has one simple theming engine so everything looks the way you'd expect between applications.
- anoncake 7y ago> On the contrary, I think GNOME allows people too much freedom Freedom is kind of the point of free software.
- faissaloo 7y agoThe ability to run what you want and modify what you want is different from design freedom.
- anoncake 7y agoIndeed. Keeping people from modifying their software affects only developers, keeping people from choosing a theme affects every user. The ability to use what software you want, however, isn't much different from the ability to use what theme you want. And ultimately, freedom is not specifically about running the software you want, or about modifying software, but about doing what you want.
- faissaloo 7y agoThe ability to use whatever theme you want has created a situation where Linux UI is in complete disarray. If you want a different UI you should obviously have that option, but there isn't a major UI system that takes the opposite approach, instead developer effort is being wasted on a feature that's always broken all the time and restricted to handful of working themes anyway.
- anoncake 7y ago> there isn't a major UI system that takes the opposite approach Good thing there is at least one then. Blindly cloning other "major UI systems", now that would be a waste of developer resources.