shatteredgate

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by shatteredgate 5y ago
It's not clear what you're talking about because there isn't a reality where this does whatever you want without programmers working on it. Average users are always going to need help from them, regardless of whether it'
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
Well again that's great for you that all the apps you use worked, but a lot of the KDE apps I use are broken with some themes :) I'm sure they would work fine in i3wm if you used Breeze but I have had very mixed results on any win
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
I think you are misusing the word "doublespeak", I would suggest against using that word. There are some technical reasons why tweak tool will not work anymore but you can still use gtk.css and GTK_THEME, see here: https:/&#
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
Using a rolling release distro usually qualifies as unstable bleeding edge updates I think :)
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
There is really no good option for this unfortunately, you will probably run into a lot of issues getting some extensions to work and you still won't be able to use some X11 programs such as those using XCB. Implementing X11 actually n
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
Not sure who you have been talking to but most Linux developers who I've communicated with have strongly suggested that you do always install updates and don't skip them. It seems it is an equally bad idea to disable automatic upd
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by shatteredgate 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 think we can agree that this is unusable, it also appears that it is at
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
I used to be a "wait and see" person until I actually took a hard and critical look at a lot of things in the crypto space. It seems evident now that most of it is just poor reinventions of existing financial services, and in some
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
>I meant to say that, unlike GNOME apps, they allow me to use my own themes and don't enforce their decisions and choices on me when I use their apps. Well you can also use any theme you want on GNOME apps, libadwaita didn't br
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
XML does offer some really good advantages when it comes to storing strings and sub-documents. I would absolutely not want to write any kind of document in JSON, but XML has been used successfully for a great many document formats.
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
Sorry, was responding to the last part of your sentence.
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
Yes, I enjoy lisp the language and its constructs but I don't enjoy the parenthesis or the syntax. What's hilarious about that? I'm sure you could list some aspects of lisp that you don't like if you have a lot of experi
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
I agree that SVG/XML is bad for embedded and I think this format is cool but you probably can agree it's unlikely anything will displace SVG unless it matches it in features, one of the benefits which is to manipulate SVGs using t
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
To me it's missing the point to describe that as Brainfuck versus Lisp. It just turns out that lambda functions and linked lists are higher level abstractions than arrays and pointers. I'd like to see some more variations on that
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
The size is not really an issue for any compression algorithm. I've seen quite a few small XML parsers that don't bother with the full spec and only implement a subset.
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
IMO that defeats the purpose of using this format if you have to write things to compile to it. If you do that you might as well just compile to the binary format since you won't be editing your canonical representation anyway. I'
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
Am I the only one who dislikes S-expressions and prefers XML or JSON or even YAML? The parenthesis are way too confusing when editing manually and the format doesn't have enough semantic information to always correctly parse into commo
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
>I mean, what is that even meant to convey? I'm conveying that no party can actually restrict this, GNOME/KDE apps might look ugly and bad on the other desktop but that's different from a business/legal restriction st
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
>I'm not going to stop you from pretending like nothing is wrong if that's your prerogative. Please don't jump to this conclusion, I'm not doing that. If some GTK3 users want to continue developing GTK3 or use some ot
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
1. Those will probably use SDL which has got support for wayland CSD: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/4068 2. Wine apps will probably have to draw the win32 decorations. Native apps can implement their
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
>Correction: traditional XML stylesheets were removed with the release of GTK4 so they could introduce a new paradigm, one that was not ready to replace it. Not really, the XML format is pretty similar. In my experience it works very wel
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
>you are FORCED to implement CSD on GNOME because their Window Manager will not paint the SSD for you, even for old application that existed before GNOME3 was created. No, this is not true at all. Old applications and toolkits that exist
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
It probably cannot be done automatically in GTK2 apps because of API differences. GTK2 apps could call the portal API manually or put the functionality in another library. >we should not get tricked to believe GNOME would have done this
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
Sure, the feature existed in GTK but what I mean there is that GNOME 2 apps didn't use that. They never painted their own CSD. Sure some apps did for splash screens but not for ordinary app windows. Then when GNOME 3 happened they all
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
I think you're misinterpreting decisiveness as arrogance. GNOME developers would probably like to respond to more of them but they can't because of lack of developers, so they have to make tough decisions about what to support. Wh
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
>They're making their desktop environment and apps into a walled garden on a platform like Linux. This is a rather empty statement as all these apps and the whole platform still continue to be open source. >Call it what you want
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
That's more because GNOME has completely dropped GTK2 while other projects continue to use it. In the past that wasn't true, GNOME 2 apps depended on a separate library called libgnomeui that had widgets specific to GNOME 2. All t
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
a. Some discussions become the target of trolling and it's necessary to lock threads, unfortunately it happens sometimes. If somebody has made a rude comment then you may want to report that as a code of conduct violation. The develope
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
If you depend on having a GUI builder then I agree it makes sense to wait for that to be stable before switching to GTK4. It's being worked on but progress is slow because of a severe lack of contributors. I don't know anything ab
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by shatteredgate 5y ago
App developers will design their apps in a certain way and will add features that they think benefits the app. Some will add CSD if they think it's beneficial and others won't. What is it that you would want to do about that? That

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