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Re:GNOME 44 by sprash on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:55AM (#35273321)
This also seems like misrepresentation of the entire file picker saga. First of all, it is absolutely laughable that something as essential as a thumbnail file picker is missing for that long, literally decades. Several patches have been submitted by people "willing to put muh effort and money in it" and got rejected because superficial idiotic reasons. On the other hand vast amount of resources are put into widely unpopular changes like client side window decoration, removing configuration options, turning everything into a tablet UI or breaking font rendering. And the "massive strides towards simplifying its codebase" means nothing more than dropping backwards compatibility on a regular basis while making everything more bloated and resource demanding.

Maybe Gnome is a project to sabotage the FOSS desktop. Stranger conspiracies turned out to be true. Personally I'd recommend: Don't use their software. Don't contribute to their ecosystem. Don't go to their conferences. Don't ever give them any money.

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Re:GNOME 44 by anthk on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:27AM (#35273644)
Thank Icaza and RH for that. Gnome when it was born it was amazing. They shipped a window manager with LISP capabilities, Sawfish. Totally the opposite of Gnome3. I wish the FSF forked over Gnome in order to bring a Guile interface to Mutter instead of GJS. It would be much better. I memember when I discovered emacs when I was 15 or so, I was astounded. Self-documenting, with geek-nerd culture in every bit of it, a text editor with a chatbot, tetris and a text adventure bundled with it and it also was a LISP interpreter. You could do mail, news, IRC and with proper plugins, play IF text adventures with Malyon, allowing you to copy and paste from everything to everything. Now with Gnome 3 thanks to ReadHatware/XMLpest/SystemD everything wants to be a bad NT clone from Micros~1 with SystemD instead of svchost.exe.
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Re:GNOME 44 by rhaway84773 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:40AM (#35274623)
Lol, we’ve already entered the realm of conspiracy theories.

This is exactly the toxicity that I was talking about.

I suspect most open source software projects would be thrilled to not have individuals like you not be their users.

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Re:GNOME 44 by sprash on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:20AM (#35275228)
So who is the target audience of GNOME then? Does it even have users?

The EEE practices of Microsoft were a conspiracy theory as well until everything about it got confirmed as true in the Halloween Documents.

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Re:GNOME 44 by xenon7 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:55AM (#35274855)
>Maybe Gnome is a project to sabotage the FOSS desktop.

By that logic, you could say KDE is doing the same thing by being such a buggy mess.

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