locke78

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   by locke78 6y ago

   This article has so little substance that I wish people would stop re-posting it. It adds nothing to the discussion. Like yeah, there are bug reports that haven't been addressed. Developers come and go and sometimes have to leave befor
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   by locke78 6y ago

   Yeah that's one of them. If you don't like the RHEL desktop you can choose another vendor.
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   by locke78 6y ago

   That's not a modern problem and it's not something the developers did. If you have N apps and M themes, you have to test N × M combinations. This is an impossibly large number on any platform that allows users to make their own ap
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   by locke78 6y ago

   GNOME Shell doesn't use GTK at all. It uses a different internal toolkit called St.
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   by locke78 6y ago

   That's not subjective. When they merge code like that and then you disappear, they're now stuck budgeting time to maintain that API for years. They can't be expected to do that work when no maintainers care enough and no GNOM
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   by locke78 6y ago

   It may be time to look elsewhere if the complaints are unanswered for more than a decade; they're probably being directed towards the wrong people. That's an obligation you may want to hold yourself to, if you value your own time
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   by locke78 6y ago

   That's the way it is when you depend on volunteers, they work on things when they feel like it. A solution would be to pay for a company-supported distro. Some were mentioned in other comments here.