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by _2paq 5y ago
> Well you can also use any theme you want on GNOME apps, libadwaita didn't break that Happy to correct myself but unless there's a supported way to change themes for libadwaita apps using GNOME tweak tool or something similar,
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by _2paq 5y ago
> BTW for an example, here is what the KDE system settings looks like for me when I try to run it using qt5ct in GNOME: https://i.imgur.com/pxEKXye.png I don't get why you'd want to run KDE system settings outs
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by _2paq 5y ago
> Your use case seems to be unusual, an old FAQ entry suggests that i3wm users prefer text-based file managers: This is an old NAS that I don't really use much. It's true though, I've mostly stopped using GUI apps on my pr
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by _2paq 5y ago
> as all these apps and the whole platform still continue to be open source. I mean, what is that even meant to convey? Do you mean to say that one can always create hard forks of non-trivial packages like GTK or develop extensions for G
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by _2paq 5y ago
> Which KDE technical issues are preventing its adoption? I'm running KDE full for a long time and encountered no issues. Some of them are linked by pxc post above mine. There's also the issue that Qt apps can only be written i
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by _2paq 5y ago
> But I hope it makes that decision make more sense. It does but it's rather unfortunate that the only choice we have when it comes to DEs is either GNOME, which is built by a group of arrogant developers who think there is no downs
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by _2paq 5y ago
I wasn't questioning NixOS's customisability. I was questioning the choice to promote GNOME as "recommended for most users" on the download page. https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso There's no
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by _2paq 5y ago
I'm taking about the "Recommended for most users" tag for the GNOME ISO. https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso
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by _2paq 5y ago
I guess this is just my opinion but NixOS is probably the most esoteric Linux distribution I've used. Anyone who intends to use NixOS comfortably probably isn't apprehensive about configuration and customization, things which are
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by _2paq 5y ago
They're making their desktop environment and apps into a walled garden on a platform like Linux. Most GTK4 apps won't be usable outside the intended desktop environment for which they're built. They also engage in carefully c
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by _2paq 5y ago
> Flatpaks are not meant to replace established package managers, but to act as a supplement to them. I'd be genuinely surprised if distributions like Fedora still use, or actively maintain, RPMs for any GUI software after a few yea
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by _2paq 5y ago
> It's a shame to hear that kind of talk coming from the openSUSE world when Zypper did so much to raise the bar for high-level Linux distro package management tools. :( Yeah, I don't think it'll last in the foreseeable fu
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by _2paq 5y ago
The bundle concept applies more to AppImages than to Flatpak. Flatpak downloads common runtime libraries and packages and uses them to run all GUI packages in a sandboxed environment using bubblewrap. OStree is also involved. I dislike Flat
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by _2paq 5y ago
This is why I feel efforts like Fedora Silverblue might end up becoming mainstream in the years to come rather than esoteric projects like NixOS. I personally dislike both projects though, when it comes personal desktops. Silverblue is heav
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by _2paq 5y ago
He's being pedantic. He means to say that because GTK had theming via stylesheets, it wasn't "real" theming but a hack. Now, there's just a re-coloring API where I can't change the dark background if I don&#x27
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by _2paq 5y ago
> They have done pretty much the opposite - they added a proper API of theming instead of having a stylesheet override. That's not theming, that's just changing accent colors in the same theme. If I don't like dark backgro
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by _2paq 5y ago
They decided to make GTK4 apps exclusive to the desktop environment for which the app was built for. You could use it outside the intended DE but it will look alien.
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by _2paq 5y ago
> VM like Palemoon umm, what?
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by _2paq 5y ago
GTK4 apps aren't meant to used outside of the platform for which they're built for. If the GTK4 app in question is built using libadwaita, it's meant to use only inside GNOME. If it's built using libgranite, it's me
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by _2paq 5y ago
It's good that dragonstone is built using GTK3. I wouldn't have considered it if it was a GTK4 app.
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by _2paq 5y ago
> And if you do not want that I think Kitty allows you to just use another font then Do you really believe that's reasonable? That I should stop using my favorite monospace fonts just because a terminal emulator doesn't let me
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by _2paq 5y ago
> Thanks for being understanding. No problem. I know maintaining forks isn't an ideal thing to do and support should ideally land upstream. > I believe it's unfair that Linux users have fewer options than us Windows users, d
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by _2paq 5y ago
Because sixel support isn't present in any released version and only present in git? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/253#note_1049040
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by _2paq 5y ago
Hard forks rarely get traction and are almost always lost in obscurity, unless the original project itself is abandoned. tmux isn't abandoned so I doubt this fork will end up being used by more than a handful of people. EDIT: Yup, as s
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by _2paq 5y ago
Yep, that's all it was. I have a few things that I can't stand and I have no problem ditching something that doesn't offer me what I want. For example, I ditched Kitty because it doesn't let me disable italic variants of
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by _2paq 5y ago
You might wanna consider avoiding all VTE based terminals (includes GNOME termina) on Linux because VTE development is spearheaded by GNOME developers. They're almost always guided by their "every preference has a cost" philo
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by _2paq 5y ago
I'll probably regret writing this but if you read the entire rant, the author had been trying get sixel support into VTE based terminals (GNOME terminal and family) but he was blocked, which isn't really surprising considering the
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by _2paq 5y ago
> Any insight into how this one compares to Alacritty and Kitty? In terms of customization and configuration, I'd say foot falls between Alacritty and Kitty with Kitty being the most customizable and configurable while Alacritty bei