Translation: you didn't understand what he said, but still couldn't refrain from a snarky reply.

Sublime renders the sidebar itself, and doesn't rely on whatever UI toolkit the user has installed

> Translation: you didn't understand what he said ...

I understood him perfectly. He said, "Is anyone else seeing a strange issue on Linux where the sidebar doesn't toggle open/close folders correctly?" That's not Linux, and because there's more than one desktop environment in common use, the OP needed to identify what he was referring to. He speaks as though everyone who runs Linux uses the same desktop environment.

> and doesn't rely on whatever UI toolkit the user has installed

Locate my use of the word "toolkit". I said "desktop environment". Linux is not a desktop environment -- that's something that, among other properties, has sidebars.

>I understood him perfectly. He said, "Is anyone else seeing a strange issue on Linux where the sidebar doesn't toggle open/close folders correctly?" That's not Linux.

1) Nope. That's Linux (in that he refers to the Linux version of ST3, running on Linux).

>and because there's more than one desktop environment in common use, the OP needed to identify what he was referring to.

2) Nope again. The desktop environment doesn't have anything to do with ST's sidebars.

It's all about the GUI toolkit ST uses, and the bug would be there whether the user used Gnome, GTK, fwvm, Englightnment, or whatever.

So, even if ST used, say, GTK for it's graphics, your answer would be wrong, because the toolkit a program uses has nothing to do with the user's "desktop environment". A user can run Gimp under KDE for example.

But you're doubly wrong, because ST doesn't even use a toolkit associated with a desktop environment in the first place, but instead uses it's own GUI code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822114

As pertains to Linux desktops, a "desktop environment" is a loose term for something like Xfce, KDE, or GNOME, and typically provides things like taskbars, application launch menus, desktop icons, and to a greater or lesser extent, a suite of interoperating applications.

Which DE a user is currently running is irrelevant to the rendering of Sublime Text's sidebar. The Sublime Text process is sending commands directly to the X server. The DE is not involved.

Sorry. Mistype. What desktop environment you're running has absolutely nothing to do with the widgets that ST3 uses.