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> The GNOME devs seem to think that GNOME should only behave how they want. For many years I followed this whole outrage but wasn't really sure whom to believe

> The GNOME devs seem to think that GNOME should only behave how they want. For many years I followed this whole outrage but wasn't really sure whom to believe because I didn't have any stakes in the matter. Then the GNOME/GTK devs removed support for key themes[0,1] and I still have no idea why. The arguments they brought forward make absolutely no sense to me. Now I get where people were coming from. [0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/c22ff1/gtk_4_support_for_key_themes_does_not_affect/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/c22ff1/gtk_4_support... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702303

spauldo 1y ago
Sun donated a bunch of UI guidelines to the GNOME project back in the really early days. Those guidelines basically boiled down to "You users are idiots, and power users don't matter, so get rid of as many options and force a single way of interacting with the software." The GNOME development philosophy just expanded on this.