GNOME and KDE destroyed their former community, such stupid decisions over and over again. Changing directions, etc. Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were great, then both went downhill.
Ubuntu w Unity 7 and Ubuntu MATE are great, but standard GNOME3 is garbage - too many stupid UI warts.
Re:CUPS License Change Coming
by ryanpepper on Friday November 10, 2017 @11:04AM
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Unity is getting ditched in favour of GNOME3 as of 18.04, which probably means it's going to die...
GTK+ is maybe a bad example. The developers were not exactly welcoming of contributions or particularly friendly to suggestions. My experience was that they did not foster an environment which was amenable to participation, and that is their loss, but essentially a self-inflicted loss at that.
Re:CUPS License Change Coming
by dvfjsdhgfv on Friday November 10, 2017 @08:09AM
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I completely agree. However, when we talk about power users who love their system and depend on it to work - and macOS is often used for development work - it's just feels natural that you at least try to fix the problem yourself, and if the fix works well, it's also natural you send it upstream.
Not to mention that a lot of majorly used open source stuff have even less developers (despite being nominally open to all to give a hand/debug/etc) than a typical macOS component.
To the point that the GTK+ maintainer lamented that it was just him, a single person, doing most of the work, a few years ago -- and begging for others to come help.