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Gnome developers in a nutshell (lemmy.world)
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[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 90 points 6 months ago

I sort of liked GTK back in the day when it was still the Gimp Tool Kit first and foremost. When it was 1999 and your other choices were a broken Lesstif, an early C++ centric Qt, clumsy Tk, and pre-Cambrian Xaw, it was nice to have something full-featured and tasteful.

Now I hesitate to pull in a GTK app because it won't theme right (I want to use the same bitmap fonts I liked in 1999, but apparently Pango stopped supporting them) and runs the risk of convincing the package manager to dump several gigs of GNOME crud on my drive.

I gather even the GIMP itself no longer tracks current GTK-- it's become solely in service to GNOME and their absurd UI whims (* * * * client side decorations)

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 41 points 6 months ago

client side decorations

Ah yes, the developers' dumping ground. App menus bad, five miscellaneous buttons (and also a menu) good and m i n i m a l.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 9 points 6 months ago

Oh my god I hate client side decorations.

I used to love GNOME 2, but now I've jumped ship to KDE and I love it.

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[-] m4@kbin.social 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm with you - I was kind of happy with GNOME2 back in the day, but the forecoming of what was going to be GNOME3 made me jump out that ship and became a refugee in KDE.

It's a shame the Linux ports of Chrome and Firefox are written in GTK because of the reasons you mentioned. Once I heard some guy at GNOME talking about porting Firefox directly to Wayland - which sounds kind of bollocks for a pedestrian like me - but if it's possible, I hope that they succeed and Firefox can become a toolkit-agnostic web browser.

But at the same time I wonder about projects like Xfce and if they ever decide to move away from GTK, like LXDE did. I mean, a fusion between Xfce and Enlightenment would be awesome.

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 months ago

GNOME always seemed to be a solution chasing a problem, particularly once the licensing fears for Qt/KDE were settled.

But now it's one of the things Red Hat seems to impose on the world. Feels like everything controversial comes out of them or Canonical. I guess they have the commercial cash to prop up things like GNOME and Wayland and systemd and snaps until they gain traction, while more community-focused products can't break the world for no reason.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

porting Firefox directly to Wayland

I'm trying to understand what that even means.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 38 points 6 months ago

Gnome is written by, just hear me out, Malus workers in their offtime who got screamed at by Steve Jobs for misplacing a button by a few pixels. They wanted to write a Mac interface without some tech dictator breathing down their neck, but with the same philosophy of "we know what's best for the users".

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 months ago

Gnome is good as it doesn't had a lot of complexity and looks nice out of the box.

I do wish the gnome devs would be a little more flexible. However, I also wish KDE had a dumb mode that disables the customization. Xfce4 has a kiosk mode

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

So, here's a thought. Instead of removing customization, people just, you know, not customize things. It's like going into the Settings page, except instead of doing that, you don't do that.

Problem solved.

[-] niemcycle@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

You underestimate my power, I see a Settings menu, and instantly enter a fugue state, 30 minutes pass and I suddenly come back to myself, my desktop environment looks entirely different, the windows are wobbly, and GTK window theming is broken.

I need help

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[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Meh, /g/ on 4chan which is where this post is from, is mostly bitter racists angry that can't pelt everyone with racial and homophobic slurs in the community. They literally think banning hate speech in CoCs is akin to brutal Stalinist oppression.

[-] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 49 points 6 months ago

Isn't this just an ad hominem? You aren't disagreeing with the point, just saying you dislike the creed that said it.

[-] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

True. But still /g/ is pretty tame and people mostly discuss tech stuff like this post. Now /b/, /pol/ and /int/ are another matter.

[-] shimdidly@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Dismissing a post because of the platform it is posted on sounds pretty racist to me. Judge them not by the color of the greentext but the content of the meme. Or, something like that.

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[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 16 points 6 months ago

I don't think I hate something as much as I hate client side decorations, "minimal" interfaces and the whole GNOME 3+ theming.

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