>I don't trust GNOME/GTK developers to keep their "every preference has a cost" philosophy limited to GNOME That isn't a philosophy, it's just how development

>I don't trust GNOME/GTK developers to keep their "every preference has a cost" philosophy limited to GNOME That isn't a philosophy, it's just how development works. Preferences do have a cost, in any project. The actual GNOME philosophy is more along the lines of "GNOME would rather spend the cost of preferences elsewhere" which has been part of the project's philosophy for many years, if you disagree with that decision then feel free to use some other platform. I don't see what your issue is with GNOME Screenshot, you don't have to use it. Just use Spectacle, nobody is going to take issue with you doing that. The builtin GNOME tools are designed to be simple and straightforward, not to include every feature under the sun. Which features an app has is entirely up to its developer, you can say they should or shouldn't do something but it's not your decision to make unless you are developing that app. The developer might listen to community suggestions but they don't have to, and they are very unlikely to if the suggestions are rude. >I also stand by my statement of "GNOME not really being a community project" after reading the blog posts by Tobias. There is little room for disagreement besides what the "GNOME way" says and little care for downstream. This paragraph doesn't make sense to me. The "GNOME way" is just what a group of loosely connected developers all agree on and those blog posts are just one developer's opinion. You're saying it's not a community project but that "GNOME way" is entirely the product of that community, there is nothing else there. Downstream is only relevant as far as they contribute back upstream, because there is no other possible way for there to be any relationship there. But I would say in a lot of cases with FOSS communities, the well has been poisoned and interactions become toxic very fast, I just try to cut that behavior off at the head and correct any misinformation that is out there.