Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
by notriddle on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:57PM
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Consistent look?
If you’re thinking of the website I’m thinking of [1], the screenshot they lead with isn’t just inconsistent. It’s broken, with light text on a white background. And I’ve seen apps fail in that same way for real when trying custom GTK themes.
It’s the same reason web browsers can’t change the system CSS stylesheet without extreme measures like Reader Mode that strip almost all of the design work out of the site: it’s hard to mix design work from two different people (the application author and the theme author) without risking a total mess.
Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
by wmf on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:40PM
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Yeah, GNOME should just admit that it's an OS and stop pretending to be a framework or DE or whatever.
Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
by SkyMarshal on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:27PM
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They sort of do. https://os.gnome.org/
For some apps I don't care too much, because I run them in full screen anyway, and their specific look is adjusted to their function: IDEs, DAWs, even graphic editors. But if they do support DE-wide themes, I do appreciate that!