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[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 2 points 9 months ago

No idea if that's the case but they certainly seem to have been made with the same mentality. FOSS has for a while suffered of what I call the "Icaza pest", trying to bring the Microsoft way of design and programming into Linux. The results and troubles this causes abound, considering eg.: the fart that has been Gnome themes since 3.x, or the Gnome posturing back in the day that "users have no right to change their settings" when modernization of Gnome-terminal, and how it'd interact with stuff like screen and dtach, were discused.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

It's not all FOSS it's just those projects. You don't have to use Gnome.

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But their choices do impact other projects. I may not use Gnome, but the choices made on theming (or lack of) , for example, now also effect XFCE.

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