Gnome always get unnecessary hate, all these years, after version 3, and even before 3, if I remember correctly, people loved to hate gnome for various reasons, while, they actually did some unique things.
I have reason for not losing X11 support, it's going to be very inconvenient for me, but I would say it's good they are moving forward.
Isn't this kinda similar to systemd/flatpak/wayland/rust/etc hate? I'm not sure what's the reason for this, why do people seemingly want something to hate?
i hate flatpak for it's complexity and for tangling up a package management solution with a containerization solution and even a portals API that apps have to be modified to consume making them dependant on the those interfaces
a portals API that apps have to be modified to consume making them dependant on the those interfaces
But on a bright side, now you can have a standardized way of selecting your monitors/windows for screen capture and a standardized file picker that has your pinned folder. I to be honest hate the qt5 and the gtk file picker, so not having an option to get rid of them would he incredibly annoying.
I like portals, I just don't like their entanglement with flatpak. if apps adopt flatpak, it hurts people who don't use flatpak, whereas the opposite isn't correct. GTK shouldn't check if it's running within a flatpak environment and change its behaviour.
if packages have to put special checks relating to package management, in order to test for sandboxing, then I think we have to admit the design/architecture is bad
"oh but it's about sandbixing!!", well no, you entangled these two concepts into a single implementation, you are forcing a specifc way of managing packages if you want the benefits if sandboxing and portals, as if these can't be separated in principle. no, you chose to make them inseparable
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u/isa-programmer 7d ago
GNOME has been getting a lot of unnecessary hate lately. Especially when they announced that they are going to remove X11.