Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Aiming For GNOME 42, Avoiding GTK4 Where Possible

[Mez']

iblocking in linux? nosense, if i want close i go to mac, where we cant change a thing, open is about change what we want.

Also, you need a decent theme to do that. Adwaita is anything but decent, and that's why so many want to theme it in the first place.

As you can see I had put the smiley face, it was ironic.

Damn! I took the bait. Or I indulged.

[krzyzowiec]

Really, the Gnome developers should just permanently block theming and be done with it.

I want to see a unified and consistent graphical desktop environment across all distributions. Gnome 4x and libadwaita is the closest to that milestone.

You’re not using every distribution, just one of them. I can’t stand the ugly default gnome theme. You can use it if you like, but I want to use something else.

[hax0r]

kthxbye Ubuntu, I know Fedora will get it right at least.

[dc_coder_84]

Interesting, Sebastien Bacher also says they plan to use Linux Kernel 5.15 for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. He's saying it here in a comment under his article: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubunt...g-lts/26156/13

[Linuxxx]

Interesting, Sebastien Bacher says they plan to use Linux Kernel 5.15 for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. He's saying it here in a comment under his article: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubunt...g-lts/26156/13

Well, this was pretty much to be expected, since Linux 5.15 is a LTS release, too.

Still, I blame Greg-KH, because he could have made an exception for 5.16 released just last week, thus missing the end-of-year deadline by a few days only...

Kinda sad because of the missing FUTEX2 support in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

[Danny3]

They should get rid of the Snap crap first!
Tired of having to uninstall that garbage on every install.
I can't stand the hijacking of sudo apt-get install and the forced upgrades!
It's my computer, not Canonical's!

[perpetually high]

Hey peeps, I finally added a readme to my Ubuntu kernel build script if anyone is interested. Not gonna spam it, but see profile if interested. Cheers.

[sarmad]

Really, the Gnome developers should just permanently block theming and be done with it.

I want to see a unified and consistent graphical desktop environment across all distributions. Gnome 4x and libadwaita is the closest to that milestone.

macOS has never allowed theming, and I really hope Microsoft will follow suit in updated versions of Windows 11 and future versions of Windows.

That's a very strange demand. What harm is theming doing you that you want it completely blocked?

[sarmad]

I hope not. I prefer to make the desktop look like how I want it to.

And funny how you mention other OS's, but macOS is about the only OS where theming is not possible. Windows, Linux, Haiku, AmigaOS (both the old 3.x as well as the current 4.1), BSD, Chrome OS… they all support theming one way or another.

Wait, is AmigaOS still a thing?

[zzarko]

Wait, is AmigaOS still a thing?

Yup, version 3.2.1 was released a few weeks ago.