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awrmc

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    Comment #29940375

    Are you suggesting "political correctness" is the only reason someone might be discouraged from installing a program named after toilet humor and juvenile references to specific pa…

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    Comment #29936767

    In my opinion, you're wasting your time with layer shell. The design of it is very X11-like and flawed. Panels setting their own position is problematic and prevents the shell from…

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    Comment #29930683

    >Not sure why you'd knock the way GIMP and Inkscape LAF on other systems; they both look perfectly native on Windows, and much better than the majority of cruddy MacOS desktop app …

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    Comment #29930611

    But that's the whole thing. Redhat and the foundation don't have any leadership over a decentralized group of open source developers. Gnome is not like the Linux kernel where there…

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    Comment #29930593

    The only one out of those that's a intentional design is multiple monitors. The other ones are known shortcomings that are just really hard to fix. The memory leak was fixed a few …

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    Comment #29930555

    That isn't how gnome works, being decentralized and all. The foundation pays for very little of the development and has little to no influence over what developers actually do. If …

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    Comment #29930484

    That's not a counterpoint, the rest of your comment doesn't follow either. Check the most recent comment for suggestions on how to help out with changing the functionality: https:/…

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    Comment #29930326

    That's categorically false, there are issues to fix both of those in the gnome settings: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues... https://gitlab.gnome.org/GN…

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    Comment #29930215

    It's not easy for me to take this comment seriously because gnome doesn't actually have anything anyone could define as leadership. It's a decentralized open source thing. You migh…

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    Comment #29930165

    Iced looks pretty cool but it's focused on being a cross-platform toolkit and will probably not ever be the best choice for making programs native to Linux, like a desktop environm…

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    Comment #29930151

    That seems like a lot of revisionist history. From what I've seen GTK never had good cross-platform development support. Programs like GIMP and Inkscape always looked and behaved v…

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    Comment #29930093

    >Also gnome is so flawed in so many ways from leaking memory due to unfixable mismatch between js and compiled code, to nonsensical handling of multiple desktops, to add-ons that b…

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    Comment #29930055

    That question is a non-sequitur. But to give you a type of answer, most of libadwaita came out of Purism.

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    Comment #29930012

    Checking the response from the maintainer shows another different story: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658#c12 >Implementing keyboard selection inside vte means tha…

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    Comment #29929929

    You've decided the best way forward for you is to write sysvinit and openrc scripts. That's an opinion completely focused around writing some additional code. You don't have to wri…

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    Comment #29929898

    I think you've got some things mixed up. The word "woke" usually means being aware of issues with discrimination in the workplace. I'd have to agree with the grandparent comment, i…

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    Comment #29869191

    >If a bug is in systemd, I can't easily fix it myself. I now have to fight upstream to recognize my issue and fix it for me. That's not true. You can do as you would with the shell…

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    Comment #29869139

    That's just re-stating the grandparent comment! If you think everyone is entitled to their opinion then the only tangible way to express that opinion would be to produce new code. …

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    Comment #29869114

    I haven't seen any of these supposed Red Hat projects that have dependencies for political reasons. If that were really true then it would be trivial for anyone to remove those dep…

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    Comment #29867540

    I think it's fair to say that Linux isn't Unix and goes well beyond the design constraints of Unix that were imposed when it was originally started in 1969. That's the era you stic…

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    Comment #29866909

    The ticket that quote came from is pretty old and turned out to be a non-issue. I've addressed that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29865759 If you're tryi…

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    Comment #29866755

    >I heard that Gnome is dependent on systemd now. Under some circumstances (not all), GNOME has a dependency on logind. If you're in one of those circumstances, you can use elogind …

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    Comment #29866497

    >That was mostly feature expansion. I meant improvement of existing workflows For desktop app developers? There were a lot of API refinements and enhancements to the widgets too, I…

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    Comment #29866141

    I disagree with this, in my experience D-Bus is very similar to other IDLs like DCOM, protobuf or ASN.1. If you're familiar with those, D-Bus should actually be easy in comparison.…

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    Comment #29865996

    If you're asking for Red Hat to stop creating integrations between different parts of their distribution, that isn't going to happen. That's one of the benefits you get from being …