![]() ![]() I'm mad because the current maintainers have no interest in extending the discussion around what GNOME should be. ![]() I'm not mad that my patches were rejected, the GNOME team is notorious for neglecting basic functionality like thumbnails in the filepicker for almost two decades, even with literally hundreds of pull requests with suggested fixes. But doing everything that way, while still being able to put everything together in a polished way, might actually be impossible. And I still think that some desktop components certainly benefit from loose coupling and well-defined interfaces, and it's possible to avoid the "polish" downsides in some cases. Buy all-Apple gear, and stay in their software ecosystem, and (modulo bugs) everything will work together seamlessly. In part, this is why Apple can give their customers such a polished, "just works" experience. So, eventually, you just decide: screw it, we'll own the entire stack, or at least gain enough influence over the people who make parts we don't control, such that everything works seamlessly for us. Sure, you can put APIs and documented IPC interfaces between things, but that doesn't mean everything will match up in a usable way. ![]() I think the problem is that making things look to the user as an integrated, polished experience is exceptionally hard when you have the loosest of loose coupling all over the place, and differing views as to how to get things done. ![]()
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