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Telling me not to change my own icons is truly a bridge too far.
> If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.
Otherwise, I very much prefer when apps pick the system theme; on my desktop, both GTK and Qt apps look more or less the same, and I find this good from both aesthetic and ergonomic points of view.
The article says clearly they are talking about distros that apply system wide themes without checking that all GTK applications still look good and not taking about people tinkering. Distros do this because it looks good in screenshots and give the system a unique flare, but it gives all these applications a bad image when people try them and they look terrible. Is the expectation that programs like geary should loo…
This is the antithesis of open source and the things that drew me to Linux in the 90s and 00s
Exactly. WTF? If I release an open source app I would LOVE for you to theme it, mod it to your heart's content, and have a party. Send me a pull request if you come up with something cool looking.
The objection here is that distributions are building incompatible system themes that break standard GNOME expectations and make applications more confusing for users.
They're not talking about individuals messing with their systems.
That said, I absolutely agree when (if) it comes to theming actually breaking functionality (and the original developer having increased support burden because of it).
But asking distros not to style icons feels a step too far, in particular app icons. I appreciate when a distro tries to achieve visual consistency.
This is the antithesis of open source and the things that drew me to Linux in the 90s and 00s
Exactly. WTF? If I release an open source app I would LOVE for you to theme it, mod it to your heart's content, and have a party. Send me a pull request if you come up with something cool looking.
please be careful clicking this link from HN. He doesn't like the HN crowd very much.
I understand the app developers, if you have to support end users because unexpected changes were made not even by the users themselves, it makes writing applications painful.
> If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.
Sure - as long as you provide dark/night mode.
Some of them have too high contrast which makes me see after effects of text everywhere on the screen. Some of them have poor contrast and require users to ruin their eyes. But no, let's assume everyone on Earth is fine with a single light and a single dark theme.