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Re:A new wave of Linux applications by jcelerier on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:59PM (#30365601)
> The general demeanor of the team has been my-way-or-the-highway, so making suggestions mostly gets you labelled as a troll in their gitlab and sees you forcibly removed if you don't give up and assimilate into their opinion.

Remember:

> I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I'm sorry that this is the case but it wasn't GNOME's fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.

> It is my hope that you are a GNOME app. Yes this kind of fragmentation is unfortunate. I'm not happy about it either. Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up. Wish you the best.

This was a message from a GNOME dev about the transmission torrent client, 11 years ago. I guess they're consistent with themselves over time at least.

The issue about border decorations on Wayland on their gitlab was also bewilderingly infuriating.

Re:A new wave of Linux applications by jcelerier on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:15AM (#30371500)
(the issue about border decorations: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217)
Re:A new wave of Linux applications by oblio on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:09PM (#30366467)
> And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.

Where is this from?

Re:A new wave of Linux applications by jcelerier on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:23PM (#30366622)
Re:A new wave of Linux applications by oblio on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:51PM (#30366950)
Heh, drive by comment saying app functionality will be broken with no clear replacement, from someone who didn't even know a major desktop environment at the time, then proposals from another dev to completely rearchitect the app about 6 years later.

Nice.