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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand the point -- that's a different complaint entirely. The "cobbling together extensions and swapping out applications" is the customization, that's exactly what you asked for initially. Edit:
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't think that actually is a problem though. For specific GNOME apps it's true, they tend to avoid having a lot of configuration settings. You can just avoid using those apps and use other ones. The one part you can't rep
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by zxzax 5y ago
>You have to install an additional configuration tool to enable it. What exactly is the problem? It sounds like the configuration setting just moved, I can see that being inconvenient if you're used to the old way, but it doesn&#x27
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by zxzax 5y ago
It won't happen in GTK3, that's feature frozen. Maybe someone could implement it in GTK4?
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't think they will add settings back for that, but someone should be able to create an external file chooser that behaves differently.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Out of curiosity, which are the relevant features that were removed from GTK3? It should be possible to revive them in a separate library if they really are needed.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Does it? I'd imagine you could collaborate with the Mint developers, most of the hard work in packaging seems to be done there already.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Why not join up with some other Cinnamon users in Debian, and share some of the responsibility of maintaining the packages?
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by zxzax 5y ago
As far as I can see, the value seems to be in using code golfing as a form of artistic programming. Probably useless, but not any more so than your average video game, or theater performance, or art museum...
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by zxzax 5y ago
I think the Go team would also appreciate it if you filed bugs after finding a legitimate regression.
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by zxzax 5y ago
It's not needless if you've found an actual bug, i.e. if your refrigerator is actually broken. I too wish it was possible to get a refrigerator that never breaks or malfunctions or needs to be replaced. If you know how to make one
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by zxzax 5y ago
On certain corners of Github, I wouldn't say so. I think you would see a lot more people doing the same thing in C++, if there was a Cargo-style package manager that got more adoption there.
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by zxzax 5y ago
>You sure are doing a lot of not understanding in here. I mean, yes? I don't pretend to know everything about everyone. >the vast majority of people who say things like "trust the science" don't have the first clue
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't see how that's different to C++. You will run into the same issues there if you happen to use code that uses some of the various new features e.g. items targeted for C++23, that are already starting to be supported by the
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm still not really sure what that's supposed to mean or why it's not conflation, many Christians that I've met have wildly varying views on the bible. I also don't see what the difference here is supposed to be --
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by zxzax 5y ago
You seem to be describing a stereotype and not an actual person, and also that seems to be conflating it with an actual view on religious beliefs (atheism). So I can't say I know what you mean.
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. There is nothing in the context of "science itself" besides that particular scientific research or process. That's what it's defined as. Did you mean something like:
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't really buy it, it seems to suggest that scientific discoveries are not questioned and changed constantly, when they absolutely are. It's not accurate to always refer to them as "beliefs."
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, the paid people are still volunteering. They don't really have to spend company time upstreaming anything, they could technically keep all their patches in a private fork, but the company allows them to
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by zxzax 5y ago
Well, if you want some changes made, you would have to define what you mean by "fixed" and come up with some concrete steps to do that, and then implement those steps, or find a person who can do them for you. If the app uses GtkF
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by zxzax 5y ago
If there are issues you'd like to see fixed, the best way to get those dealt with would be to contribute.
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by zxzax 5y ago
You are perceiving arrogance where there is none. These are volunteer-driven projects, for better or worse the deal has always been "take it or leave it," or fork it if that's what you prefer. If there is something you want e
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by zxzax 5y ago
Good news! GNOME and KDE both have efforts to add more Rust: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rust https://community.kde.org/Rust
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by zxzax 5y ago
Money and control was always the goal though. Linux has always been popular with sysadmins that used it to run their company's servers so they could, you know, make money. Some of it was invested back. I don't think those big init
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by zxzax 5y ago
The quoted statement is not entirely accurate, polkit is compile-time optional in systemd. Though most distributions will use it because it's an enhancement over the even older sudo-type authentication mechanisms.
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by zxzax 5y ago
>Its now all about "How does this project help me and make my life convenient as a developer" rather than "How does this project help software users like me" I don't think this is a new thing, or something that i
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by zxzax 5y ago
No, not at all -- it sounded like you were saying the developers and users of such things were being naive, but maybe I'm mistaken. To give an example of what I was saying, if I was contributing to Postgres, it would be because I want
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by zxzax 5y ago
In my experience, it's very easy to denounce something else as wrong, but it's a lot harder to actually put in the work to improve the situation and to demonstrate that things have actually improved. That's all I mean by buil
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by zxzax 5y ago
Isn't that the reverse of big tech companies taking free labor? That sounds more like they're giving more free labor, because they can afford to.
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by zxzax 5y ago
>because you wanted to fuck Microsoft and the entire concept of proprietary code I think I would describe that as spite. Is it not? By long term strategy I mean strategy for building things in general. Like, I get it, I don't partic

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