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True. They're stuck in between badly aping Apple, trying too hard to do their own thing, and being toxic to the rest of the developer community. They're not a
by rollcat 1y ago
True. They're stuck in between badly aping Apple, trying too hard to do their own thing, and being toxic to the rest of the developer community.
They're not a trillion dollar company. Sure, many projects would do well with more decisive decision-making, but the strength of free software comes from community and collaboration.
- wirybeige 1y agoI've found GNOME developers to be pleasant to work with & I enjoy the experience I have with the DE.
- rollcat 1y ago<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217> TL;DR: if you want window decorations, link with libadwaita. SDL ended up linking with libdecor. You know how when you use a Qt app in Gnome, it looks out of place? Now even the window decorations look inconsistent from one another.
- wirybeige 1y agoI'm well aware of this issue. I don't expect windows to look the same to each other. I like that the title bar can have other content in it other than just the app name and the close button. For that reason alone I avoid Qt apps, as almost none draw their own title bar. Qt apps aren't even consistent among themselves in theming/style, for example the only apps that look in place on KDE are specifically made with KDE in mind. I don't understand where the "consistency" obsession comes from, all these apps use different tool kits and will look different regardless.
- rollcat 1y ago> I don't understand where the "consistency" obsession comes from [...]. Mental overhead. Sometimes Preferences is Ctrl-P, sometimes Ctrl-[,]; sometimes Copy is Ctrl-C, sometimes Ctrl-Shift-C. Sometimes the menu is a hamburger, sometimes a bar. macOS has none of these problems.