On the other hand, the methods they provide for integrating with GNOME are technically bad and unacceptable, such as depending on GTK and giving it control over your window just to render CSDs, or needing dbus for disabling the screensaver during playback.
Is GNOME's apparent behavior stupid or evil? You decide. The end result is that the "Linux Desktop" remains a dumb shit show. Writing software only for win32 or OSX is a much nicer experience, thus bad consequences for Linux.
Is GNOME's apparent behavior stupid or evil? You decide. The end result is that the "Linux Desktop" remains a dumb shit show. Writing software only for win32 or OSX is a much nicer experience, thus bad consequences for Linux.
Do they realize, that win32 and osx do exactly the thing they say Gnome is wrong doing? In win32, to create a window, you must link to user32.dll (bringing in the entire win32 widget machinery into your process), on macOS you must link to AppKit.framework (detto). But somehow, that's wrong in Linux.
So no, the problem with Linux on desktop are exactly the people who don't know what they are doing, but think that X11 is the pinnacle of desktop development and want to keep it forever. Folks like Gnome are dragging them kicking and screaming into present, but they still don't understand anything. Nothing has changed since this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0
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