Post #3769140
2026-07-12 01:59 UTC
If it looked like the first picture, its window decorations obviously wouldn't match the many GNOME apps I run on my system. But there's no law of the universe stating that it has to. We *can* just let go of the constructed idea that window controls in particular have to match across every single app while nothing else does.
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@ailepet@peoplemaking.games 2026-07-12 06:21
@bragefuglseth@sunny.garden To my point of view, the larger constructed idea behind this would be "every software (e.g. Kdenlive) is expected to match the desktop environment it runs in every aspect of its UI, and every DE and toolkit should be designed with that goal in mind". I can see how GTK and Qt themes helped feed that expectation: after all, you can make yourself a Linux setup for low-RAM devices (see BunsenLabs, etc.) with a GTK app next to a Qt one, and it may seem both are using roughly the same design language at first glance. But of course, the dream of a Win9x-like homogeneity is a fallacy: there is no Linux platform after all, as Jordan and Tobias nailed it 7 years ago