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GNOME has been nuking features for a while, recommending people to go and install extensions. Extensions work by monkey-patching and once you have a critical m
by emerongi 7y ago
GNOME has been nuking features for a while, recommending people to go and install extensions.
Extensions work by monkey-patching and once you have a critical mass of them, you're guaranteed to run into some glitches where one monkey-patch messes up the other. I like the KDE approach more where features are actually baked into the DE. It's much easier to reproduce bugs and fix bugs that can depend on different features being enabled. Everyone benefits.
- simion314 7y agoI agree with you, but if the GNOME devs can't change their "vision" the next best thing is to adopt the popular extensions the downstream distribution use and bring them in the main repository, at least you reduce the risks and maybe keep the extensions more updated. I am a KDE user and to be fair during KDE4 days ,Plasma had a maintainer with big ego that had a similar mentality with GNOME devs, we could not get a patch merged in to hide the Cachew thingy. Makes me wonder if all this GNOME vision of removing non default options is just one guy with big ego and lot of influence
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago> GNOME has been nuking features for a while That's an understatement. GNOME is so notorious for removing features that I recall jokes on Slashdot 15 years ago about how the next version of GNOME will just have a giant "Do Stuff" button in the middle of the screen.