News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment. Parent comment

Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by superkuh on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:52PM (#26799127)
File picker loss of functionality is the fault of Gtk3 and Gtk4. It would still apply even in systems without GNOME at all. Maintaing a fork of Gtk3 and 4 with patches to restore 2010 era functionality would be difficult but not infeasible. Arch does some of it.

I've looked at the code and it is quite a terrible mess. It's no two line patch to change settings anymore because everything gets reset multiple times in functions you don't expect.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by heftig on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:25PM (#26799532)
What is Arch doing?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by superkuh on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:16PM (#26800070)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk3-classic/ is a partial fix, but it still doesn't restore the filename-entry location bar.
[ Parent | on HN ]