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Did you actually bother reading any of the arguments on that page? They don't want distros to use themes because themes always break apps. This is unavoidable.
by QUrprUd1nCeicw 4y ago
Did you actually bother reading any of the arguments on that page? They don't want distros to use themes because themes always break apps. This is unavoidable. There's no practical way to make those kind of themes in a way that won't break apps eventually. Tinkering is completely different from a distro shipping broken apps by default, it's understood that's your responsibility when you break everything yourself by tinkering after-the-fact. If you wonder why they might also make it harder for this kind of tinkering, it's because tinkerers also don't like to use something that will just break everything else!
- traverseda 4y agoSomehow kde manages to largely avoid that problem. It strikes me as trying to solve technical problems socially, almost as bad as trying to solve social problems technologically.
- QUrprUd1nCeicw 4y agoNo it really doesn't. I've seen tons of Qt themes that break apps. Their theming system is similar to the design of GTK's, so it has most of the same problems. This isn't a technical problem, it's entirely a social problem: users want these themes but the same users are also under the false impression that you can ever have this type of theme that won't also break apps. When that isn't technically possible and it never will be.