No. It’s deliberately breaking backwards compatibility to force other projects that use that code to either look bland like Gnome or stop making their DE’s.
No, it’s theming their own project to look however they want it to.
bland like Gnome
Gnome looks amazing. It’s objectively the most consistent and polished DE out there, and IMO the best looking one.
or stop making their DE’s.
Lmao is this what you think? There’s a secret cabal of Gnome developers who think that by making the Libadwaita theme and using it in Gnome apps, it will kill other DEs? Can you actually hear yourself? That conspiracy theory doesn’t even make sense.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? I’m just saying they may be acting selfishly and it couldn’t hurt to speak to other parties who they know use their code, to discuss how it will impact them.
It’s deliberately breaking backwards compatibility to force other projects that use that code to either look bland like Gnome or stop making their DE’s.
You’re asserting that the Gnome team is secretly working together (i.e. conspiring) with the explicit aim of enforcing DEs to look like Gnome (idk how they could force that but whatever), or to stop making their DEs altogether (similarly, I can’t see the logic there. Unless you believe that only Gnome devs are skilled enough to make Linux programs and therefore other DEs have to take what Gnome makes. But that’s an absurd suggestion).
It’s not a conspiracy. All I was saying is that by breaking backwards compatibility downstream either has to comply or find another way.
As another commentor has mentioned, gnome did actually inform downstream a good while back but downstream did not engage, so gnome obviously proceeded with their own project how they saw fit. Which is the right way of course.
Downstream should have tried to engage and perhaps found a good work around but sadly didn’t.
No. It’s deliberately breaking backwards compatibility to force other projects that use that code to either look bland like Gnome or stop making their DE’s.
That’s bad for FLOSS and Linux users
No, it’s theming their own project to look however they want it to.
Gnome looks amazing. It’s objectively the most consistent and polished DE out there, and IMO the best looking one.
Lmao is this what you think? There’s a secret cabal of Gnome developers who think that by making the Libadwaita theme and using it in Gnome apps, it will kill other DEs? Can you actually hear yourself? That conspiracy theory doesn’t even make sense.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? I’m just saying they may be acting selfishly and it couldn’t hurt to speak to other parties who they know use their code, to discuss how it will impact them.
You did. To quote your assertion:
You’re asserting that the Gnome team is secretly working together (i.e. conspiring) with the explicit aim of enforcing DEs to look like Gnome (idk how they could force that but whatever), or to stop making their DEs altogether (similarly, I can’t see the logic there. Unless you believe that only Gnome devs are skilled enough to make Linux programs and therefore other DEs have to take what Gnome makes. But that’s an absurd suggestion).
It’s not a conspiracy. All I was saying is that by breaking backwards compatibility downstream either has to comply or find another way.
As another commentor has mentioned, gnome did actually inform downstream a good while back but downstream did not engage, so gnome obviously proceeded with their own project how they saw fit. Which is the right way of course.
Downstream should have tried to engage and perhaps found a good work around but sadly didn’t.
So they’ll have to work it out now by themselves.