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by md8z 5y ago
I am not trying to score points for any side, all of these projects can and do share code when it's practical and useful to do so. There is no "exclusivity", I'm sure you know that most of these licenses in use are compa
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by md8z 5y ago
That seems dismissive and I don't know why you would be hearing that. If there is a way to do this that you think would not qualify as an excuse, then you should mention it, otherwise both of us are stuck to what we are limited to by t
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm making an honest offer to reach out and help and correct past wrongs, I am sorry if it's patronizing, if you want me to do something else then just ask. I'll be here if you change your mind. Please understand that if you
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by md8z 5y ago
Sorry to hear that but I think on some level it is personal. I have never experienced any of what you're talking about, everyone I've talked to has been pretty respectful and open to collaboration. It's a large project so exp
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by md8z 5y ago
There actually are a good number of paid contributors from small companies, and also a good number of volunteers too. That's what I have seen. Don't feel discouraged if your first contributions didn't make it in, GNOME is a b
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by md8z 5y ago
Sorry that was your experience but you should probably know, stylesheets and extensions have never actually been considered stable. I don't know what distribution you were using but if you were using those things, it would probably mak
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by md8z 5y ago
"They're not supposed to be tightly integrated, the gnome team seems to have forgotten all of this." That is a misconception that I've noticed, maybe it's because KDE uses different APIs for a lot of things, or mayb
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by md8z 5y ago
Please avoid such hostility, open source is a team sport and we are all on the same team, even projects that do things in ways that may be not immediately useful to you or I. That kind of hostility is what leads to open source people burnin
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by md8z 5y ago
"I've also infuriatingly gotten a 'patches welcome' response before, and then simply faced the 'that's not in our vision' response upon providing a patch." That has been my experience on quite a few F
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm not sure what that has to do with the Unix philosophy, Windows also has a lot of APIs between subsystems.
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by md8z 5y ago
Yes, part of it is the inhibitor API although IIRC there are some other parts. GDM and GNOME share the same implementation of this API so they should at least do the right thing, not sure about other desktops and login managers. Edit: The o
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by md8z 5y ago
I have no idea about some of those other desktops, but all the basic moving parts are mostly necessary: - logind because you probably still want lid/sleep events to work when at a VT - gdm because you probably still want lid/sleep
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by md8z 5y ago
"over time software should converge on being bug free" Yeah, and the way that's done is by refactoring things, removing buggy/deprecated things, and not adding any more new features/requirements... So, pick your poi
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by md8z 5y ago
By default I think the simplest model is to just use references, that should work if you don't move anything into the async task.
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by md8z 5y ago
AFAIK the win32 API is kept backwards compatible by doing exactly as we describe, shipping older versions of the system libraries and automatically using them when it's detected that an application needs them. So it's the same thi
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm still not sure I understand, it sounds like a solution exists and both Steam and Flatpak are working towards it. I don't see why nvidia can't also do the same things. I hope you can see that "keep libraries backwards
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by md8z 5y ago
I keep hearing people say that, but how do you propose we write software that has no bugs and does everything perfectly right the first time? That seems impossible.
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by md8z 5y ago
IME, using reference counts there is also not a good idea. In practice I think it's better to treat async tasks just like goroutines and then use channels to communicate.
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand, isn't the original complaint here that everything needs support eventually?
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't see why that's any bigger problem than anything else, flatpak includes mesa as part of the SDK: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html#f... If there ends up being a problem wi
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, this is exactly what Flatpak and Snap were meant to solve. IIRC Steam should also bundle older copies of the libraries needed.
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by md8z 5y ago
Well that does sound like a lot, I hope you can negotiate for a raise at some point. Long-term I'm not sure what you mean building solutions for the next decade, it seems quite hard to design something perfectly in hindsight. And of co
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by md8z 5y ago
I am not following you around, I just happened to read the same thread because System76 developers were in it, they are the ones who I follow. It even seems that you went out of your way to insert yourself into the conversation and make you
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by md8z 5y ago
"I said that there were several developers paid full time to work on Gnome. Mostly they're being paid for by other companies, companies like redhat." That's true but then you are talking about Red Hat or some other compa
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by md8z 5y ago
"Gnome is a foundation with at least a few developers paid to work on it full time" This is incorrect, the GNOME foundation does not pay any developers. They paid one developer once for a few years but they don't anymore. The
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by md8z 5y ago
I am not going to comment on facebook because I have basically no relevant first hand experience with them. I also am not going to speculate with you based on second hand accounts we might have read in the news. Sorry. You'll have to a
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by md8z 5y ago
Well in my opinion, it is never appropriate here, because it is against the HN guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good fa
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by md8z 5y ago
Out of spite for what? It's open source, nobody owes each other anything. Please don't assume bad faith and please do not take it personal if someone declined a feature request. You may also want to see my comment here: https:&#x
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by md8z 5y ago
I have not really seen much popularity for those forks. And I'm honestly not trying to handwave anything away. This is like, literally every open source project. You have to adjust your workflow to use anything, a desktop can't do
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by md8z 5y ago
It is actually not straightforward to switch the code. In general, you cannot really just swap out a GUI toolkit, that influences the design of the entire program. If there are good security focused libraries that work here, and there is a

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