On Wednesday 28 July 2021 10:03:18 am dep wrote: > Even worse, in my estimation, is some of the crap the Gnomes have > instituted, by far the worst being the now-you-see-it, now-you-dont > scrollbar-tab thingy. I'm highly in favor of people being able to make > their desktops and application behavior into whatever they want it to be, > but forcing this as an unchangable default is beyond awful. I've spent > many hours trying to make it go away, but best I can tell there's no > escaping it. It's one of the reasons I tried the pretty awful digiKam over > the once great gThumb. > > That's perhaps the biggest problem with enthusiast open source: sometimes > an application is done, full stop. It does what it was designed to do, and > does it well. All that remains is maintenance and adding such features > (support for new file formats and the like) as become appropriate. But > that's not why a lot of developers got into it, which was "look at how > cool this thing I made is." > > Which makes it all the sadder that there are so many great GTK > applications, while the GTK desktop is no improvement on anything, ever. > In terms of UI, it's not as good as Windows 3.0. While the KDE developers > went off en masse to the fever swamps, even though they had it right with > KDE3, instead of polishing KDE3 and developing a range of excellent > applications. It's insane, but it comes with the enthusuast developer > territory. > -- > dep GTK3 is an eyesore, but I guess Qt5 is as well. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
