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Someone who writes a 16-thousand-words-long rant about #GNOME titled, "I Don't Care for GNOME", listing every pet peeve they have with GNOME not being perfect or not adhering to their UI worldview, is someone with an incredible amount of free time and negative energy on their hands that could have been channelled to something else on a Saturday afternoon.
Or, y'know, they could have just continued to use KDE as they have been doing until now, and let GNOME users appreciate it on its own merits.
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Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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@diegoe they are helpfully using the GNOME tag, so that everyone following it gets spammed with their ridiculous takes
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Monoka
Monoka
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@ebassi @diegoe
I felt the same when I saw this overly long post about Gnome. However, it's not one of these unfounded anti-Gnome rants. I think it's worth going through their points. While I disagree with many, some of the points really bother me, too.

E.g. in some apps I constantly search for the space in the top window bar, where I can perform a double-click to maximize the window. Worst is Firefox with many tabs open: There is virtually no space to click to maximize the window.

@Emmanuele Bassi @diegoe
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Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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@GerryT @diegoe there’s literally no reason to read that word vomit. Either things are filed as bugs in their relevant issue tracker, or it’s just venting for the sake of venting. And if they are filed as issues, then the choice is either for people complaining to work on them, or to get somebody else motivated to do so—and I can tell you that 10k words of screed do not motivate me in the least
@Monoka @diegoe
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Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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@GerryT @diegoe also: Firefox isn’t a GNOME project, and uses the same window UI for every platform, so what does that matter? Is it just for complaining about something? Client side decorations, because there is no more iconic duo than “Linux users” and “flogging long since dead horses”?
@Monoka @diegoe
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Monoka
Monoka
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@ebassi Well, my viewpoint as a user is different. If the paradigm (double-click on title bar to maximize windows) does not work for all frequently used applications, then it's the paradigm which is faulty. The result is bad user experience, anyhow. The systems of users will always rely on non-Gnome software (like Firefox,...), too.

@diegoe @nekohayo

@Emmanuele Bassi @diegoe @Jeff Fortin T.
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Brick Duck
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@ebassi @GerryT @diegoe I think you are incorrect. It is easy to maximize or hide Firefox on Win / Mac / KDE because they all have min /max buttons. People are used to a browser like Firefox having window controls. When Firefox is full of tabs, the double-clickable space in Gnome is very small.
@Emmanuele Bassi @Monoka @diegoe
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Monoka
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@ebassi I understand this. @nekohayo usually creates detailed bug reports, sometimes illustrated with figures/images. This is motivating.

But the write-up here is not motivating.

@diegoe

@Emmanuele Bassi @diegoe @Jeff Fortin T.
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