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Bahahaha. In which GNOME finally realizes that they are not, and never will be, a Steve Jobs.

• fl0ki 2y ago
  It's even worse than that. Choosing to copy another OS should have made the rest easy because it eliminates many design decisions and lets you focus on implementation. Somehow they still blew it, copying limitations rather than advantages. It doesn't help that they think extensions are an excuse not to finish features in the DE itself, while leaving the extension experience so poorly conceived and implemented that you have more confidence installing a Skyrim mod than a GNOME extension.
  • crashdancer 2y ago
    If you have any better ideas and you'd like to step up to write and maintain a different extension API, then you should do that. If not, then welcome to the club with all the other open source maintainers where everyone is underpaid and overworked and no one has any time to work on all the things they want to do.
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• anthk 2y ago
  Gnome 1.4 borrowed a lot from OS8/9. Then, Gnome 2 got a bit of inspiration of Copland and Mac OS9/halfway to 10. Gnome 3 tries to badly copy OSX (and MacOS tries to do the same with some stuff from both iOS and Gnome). Still, MacOS can dream about having something like QT and not-walled software repositories.