Isn’t that a gripe about the individual applications? Applications which are part of GNOME itself probably try to remain small and integrate well into GNOME e.

Isn’t that a gripe about the individual applications? Applications which are part of GNOME itself probably try to remain small and integrate well into GNOME e.g. Nautilus and Evolution. Applications which aren’t part of GNOME like Gimp or Geeqie rely only Gtk. It just hurts if you want use a integrated GNOME-Application with a sole window-manager. That makes sense and we shouldn’t blame the developers for modularity and re-using.