Post #533100

2026-03-05 07:10 UTC

Gajim was gnomed and I'm angy (Gajim was gnomed since June actually, Void Linux repos didn’t update to the new iteraction until a few days ago though so I wasn’t aware.) Gajim was the best XMPP client for desktops, with a nice UI and all the features I’d ever need in a messenger (YMMV). So of course it should have been turned upside-down with a UI redesign that removes compatibility with GTK3 themes while also looking extremely out of place on my system. Modern GUI design suck SO MUCH.

Replies (11)

@Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2026-03-05 07:16

So this is a “don’t move my cheese” post? I understand the need the vent from time to time, but most people have/create blogs for such things. Maybe it’s just time to look for another xmpp client.

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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 07:40

This sounds like you have beef with the developer. What’s this post about?

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@leoflo@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 07:49

build your xmpp client with gtk4 without libadwaita, maybe something cool comes out

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@dan@upvote.au 2026-03-05 09:02

What do you mean “gnomed”? Do you mean the UI started using Gtk4 and Adwaita components? Gtk3 is considered legacy now, so most apps that use Gtk will be transitioning to Gtk4 at some point.

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@_lunar@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 09:14

it straight up uses more memory than discord too desktop linux is getting ruined by this shit istg

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@Mwa@thelemmy.club 2026-03-05 09:50

Libadwaita should only be used for Apps designed for Gnome So idk if the xmpp client your using is designed for all des or gnome

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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-03-05 11:03

Oint the devs to libadapta.

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@JetpackJackson@feddit.org 2026-03-05 11:20

Gajim updated and now my chat text size is too small but the other text is fine so if I increase the font size everything else gets too big. Fucking a, I just want a working desktop XMPP client…

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@tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 12:40

Well, if it’s any consolation, you can hook up phone service to Cheogram and the calls will work with Dino. Gajim never had that so I ended up moving away from it anyways.

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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 16:10

1000% agree. Had to install an older version of Pinta because it was also gnomed a while back. While I’ve yet to contribute to open-source projects aside from reporting issues, I’ve got my eyes set on something like libadapta. As soon as one of the programs I use on a daily basis gets gnomed, I’m going all in to soft fork libadwaita and restore as many GTK3 features as I can.

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@forestbeasts__dup_73826@pawb.social 2026-03-05 18:55

This is why we run Gajim 1.9.5 in flatpak. Which. Got removed from flathub, so to install it on our laptop, we had to do some kind of weird flatpak sideloading thing. On our laptop we’ve been using Gajim 2.something from Debian 13 (our desktop runs testing so we can’t do that there). It’s not Full Gnomified. It also locks up whenever we try dragging a picture into the chat window to send. So… yeah. Someone should fork Gajim pre-2.

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