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> The general demeanor of the team has been my-way-or-the-highway, so making suggestions mostly gets you labelled as a troll in their gitlab and sees you forcib
by jcelerier 5y ago
> The general demeanor of the team has been my-way-or-the-highway, so making suggestions mostly gets you labelled as a troll in their gitlab and sees you forcibly removed if you don't give up and assimilate into their opinion.
Remember:
> I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I'm sorry that this is the case but it wasn't GNOME's fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.
> It is my hope that you are a GNOME app. Yes this kind of fragmentation is unfortunate. I'm not happy about it either. Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up. Wish you the best.
This was a message from a GNOME dev about the transmission torrent client, 11 years ago. I guess they're consistent with themselves over time at least.
The issue about border decorations on Wayland on their gitlab was also bewilderingly infuriating.
- oblio 5y ago> And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry. Where is this from?
- jcelerier 5y agohttps://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685 https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685
- oblio 5y agoHeh, drive by comment saying app functionality will be broken with no clear replacement, from someone who didn't even know a major desktop environment at the time, then proposals from another dev to completely rearchitect the app about 6 years later. Nice.
- jcelerier 5y ago(the issue about border decorations: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217)