Post #1773714

2026-04-28 21:41 UTC

@mcdanlj that little kerfuffle over the attitude was one of the later straws in the pile which ultimately broke this camel's back; I already didn't use GNOME except when I can't avoid it, but now I've started making an effort to drop apps with GNOMEified UI and GTK apps in general in favor of others where there's an equivalent available. if I'm gonna be contributing in any way (such as bug reports), I want my contribution to go toward building a healthy non-GNOME, non-GTK ecosystem.

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@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info 2026-04-28 21:50

@deutrino Whereas I generally like the GTK ecosystem and my GNOME involvement goes all the way back to being part of the team that first integrated GNOME into Red Hat Linux (as it then was). I don't think it's terrible. From time to time I try KDE and keep discovering that it's not for me. No disrespect intended; I just prefer GNOME. I don't think it's generally unhealthy; I am complaining about one particular exception, from my point of view. When I say "exception" I'm not making a claim of uniqueness, but I am saying that it's exceptional in my own experience. If I weren't overall happy with it, I'd be using something else and my top post would never have been written, because I wouldn't have run into the nuisance. It's the fact that I like the ecosystem overall that makes that post even possible. You do you, we have different preferences.

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