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> This is about distributors applying system wide default theming to apps without doing any QA and then users being confused when the app doesn't work and doesn
by chriswarbo 3y ago
> This is about distributors applying system wide default theming to apps without doing any QA and then users being confused when the app doesn't work and doesn't match support documentation. Then these users file bug reports with the app developer rather than with the theme creator.
If the support documentation only applies for certain themes, then that sure sounds like a bug in the application (or at least its docs)!
Likewise, if such requests are a consistent drain on resources (e.g. white text on white background for some custom widget, or whatever) then that also sounds like a noteworthy bug: either in the application (what's it doing wrong compared to unaffected applications that the theme developer tested against?); or the toolkit (why is GTK3+ so fragile in the first place?).
Looking at the list of signatories, it seems many of them are applications which embed a giant WebKit frame and cross their fingers (e.g. I use Geary on my Pinephone, which spawns a WebKit process with 100GB virtual RAM; even though I've set the plaintext-only preference!). That could also be the cause of such issues. Or indeed the fault might rest with GTK, for not providing the required functionality, which drove those devs to embed a browser engine instead.