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I appreciate the work GNOME authors have put in over the years - but at the same time am highly critical of many of their choices. My personal favorite desktop

I appreciate the work GNOME authors have put in over the years - but at the same time am highly critical of many of their choices. My personal favorite desktop environment is Cinnamon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(desktop_environment) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(desktop_environment) created by the Linux Mint folks as an alternative to GNOME 3. But even there we are stuck with the horrendous Gtk file-picker. A compile of problematic claims from the post: > GNOME 3.0 was an exciting new desktop designed for today’s users and which is suited to a range of modern computing devices. That's quite debatable. Or rather, it seems that the designers decided what "today's users" need, and neglected to verify that was actually the case. > Flatpak, the next generation application framework for Linux It is not. > Flatpak ... provides cross-distribution applications that are more secure than traditional Linux apps Baseless claim. And it is somewhat "imperialistic" of GNOME to expect people to get binaries directly from them.

72deluxe 4y ago
"neglected to verify that was actually the case" This seems very true. They decided that "apps" should abandon all of the useful toolbars because they were too "distracting" which is why gedit ended up being a big white space where you had to poke around in a floating popup menu to work out what you could actually do with it. By the same logic, reading a page of text is horrendously distracting and we should only be given access to 1 line at a time. Insanity, it my view, and a terrible regression on decades of UI development.