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Please consider to stop hating on GNOME or its design choices the very moment it's brought up.
Sure, can they consider stopping wasting money / time actually develop useful stuff? For a DE that got €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund they're not showing results.
Okay fine, desktop icons can be a design decision, however a “disable animations” toggle on the settings that doesn't disable ALL animations... that's just poorly made software, not something you may have an opinion on.
It is a fact that GNOME is the only other DE (besides KDE Plasma) that has modern features. So, frankly, I don't know what you're talking about.
Furthermore, GNOME's ways lends itself a lot better to the secure by default/design paradigm(s) as illustrated by this table from secureblue.
Do you mean the one that used to be in accessibility? Though, FWIW, I couldn't even find it this time 😅. Instead, consider to evoke the following command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations falseI'll grant you that it might feel archaic for some to do this through a terminal. Though, this setting is also accessible through Dconf Editor. Regardless, at least it works as desired.
Even that command wont really disable ALL animations.
Would you mind pointing out which animations are allegedly not disabled?