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> If you actually cared about that bug, you would have followed it, and seen that it has been closed. You mean that the GTK/GNOME people declare they will neve
by einpoklum 3y ago
> If you actually cared about that bug, you would have followed it, and seen that it has been closed.
You mean that the GTK/GNOME people declare they will never fix their file chooser? I've pretty much figured that out. That in itself is more of a problem than the state of the file chooser, because fixing faulty design is one thing, fixing but dogmatic insistence on poor UI is another thing altogether.
> But you just want to shit of GTK for no reason.
I disparage the GTK file chooser because it's horrible to use. I don't know anybody who works on GTK. I don't write software which competes with GTK (I'm a GPU guy). I have better things to do with my time than bad-mouth software projects I have no personal interests for or against.
What's actually happening is that some peopl are holding your hands over your eyes and refusing to see that (some of the) GTK UI elements are utterly broken intentionally and for years or decades. And while GNOME apps have alternatives, GTK is, unfortunately, popular among apps which don't really have alternatives, so I'm stuck with it.
> It's an open source project, so they owe you nothing
Huh? It's a project of human society to serve people's needs. So they owe users and developers to do a decent job and address those needs. You seem to be suggesting that if I don't personally pay them then I should just shut up and accept their choices.
I would never ever say something like that to a user of my FOSS - and I do owe my users, a lot.
> and nothing was stopping you from contributing your own improvements.
1. _Everything_ is stopping me from contributing an improvement. The idea is rejected on principle.
2. I understand you are offering to volunteer take up maintenance of the FOSS work I'm doing while I go off and start getting into GTK, with which I have no experience. Or perhaps you want to take over my day job so I can have more spare time?