Redpill me on Gnomegate

Can somebody give me a quick rundown on this new whole Gnomegate scandal? What is going on?

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>Gnomegate

You know it's serious when it has a logo.

>Gnomegate...

Goddman, I knew linux was a mistake in 1998 when faggots wouldn't shut up about it on usenet.
Now it killed the only good tech company (Sun) and we have no other good options (aka commercial)

>Gnomegate

Why everyone like to put "gate" to everything?

>Gnomegate

It happened after Gategate.

>Redpill
>Gnomegate

First thing I found on google:

Hidden under the earth for centuries lies the town of an underground dwelling race, the Gnomes...

The BillGatesGate?

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Its nothing really.
They are a bunch of crybabies crying because the piece of software that they don't use is doing things that they dont like.
Oh, and the project is bullying other projects to cather to their special snowflake needs.
Its irrelevant. QT is the standard API in Linux now.

There's no scandal, just people who don't like gnome

>if you can call it bullying
FTFM

>Gnome consistently makes retarded decisions and treats their users like shit
>Oh it's nothing

Problem is, GNOME is standing on the giants of gtk standards. The people who initially started the gtk project were very talented. But slowly they left the project and programming all together.

Gtk, at that point was truly free, and because it's implemented in C, other languages can easily FFI into gtk modules without having to worry about ABI incompatibility. Hence your favorite programming language has a gtk binding. Note that Qt didn't quite make it since it came late and wasn't truly as free as gtk.

The availability of gtk bindings boosted gtk's popularity, boosted GNOME's relevance. GNOME devs control anything that happens to gtk. The current devs think that they are something special while in reality, the talented people that created gtk ages ago enabled them to be arrogant.

So these newer GNOME devs think they are allowed to do whatever the fuck they want. They've been striping down many functionalities in favor of JS extensions that are installed via browsers without needing any admin privilege. Their excuse is that prototyping in JS is fast and GNOME-JS runtime, which is already running, will take care of the rest.

In reality, it doesn't. It's slow. Very slow.

Qt will never be able to replace gtk, at least in Linux/ other free *nix. However, I am interested to see what Budgie-Qt turns out to be. Cynical me doesn't have high hopes because the project doesn't have corporate backing like RedHat and Canonical but also lacks manpower.
However the future of Linux desktop may be affected by Qt adoption.

Problem with Qt is, no matter how better and more usable/modern the framework is, that it uses shitty Qt Meta-object-creation. On top of that, Qt ABI isn't stable in windows. Hence there are fewer language bindings that promote its popularity.

Maybe use QML? I've used DOtherSide's QML bindings and can't get 60 FPS in my Ryzen7 + RX570 system. But I genuinely hope this situation improves.


TLDR: Advice to new devs, prefer QML to GTK.

Because its nothing.

>solution: forking GTK

was thinking the same

Good luck, because GTK's documentation is impossible to read, understand and use.

XFree86 was forked to X.org. GTK can be forked too.

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>Meanwhile in KDE land

This kills the Gnome.

Is this the new Gnome thread?

Q: How many GTK+/GNOME devs does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. Things are simpler if you just live in the dark.

1. Gnome fnd. invested all money in some nigga-female shit
2. They are making shitty inconsistent UI, by removing features, like taskbar notification, the bar with window name.
3. Systemd shit...

There is no new scandal.
It's only the same shitty attitude Gnome devs had for years.

SJW cancer.

It's because they have no thumbnails in the file picker and refuse to add them

It's just a downward spiral with these people.

>refuse
They can't. Their excuse is that its too hard

The Gnome fags are no longer content to just fuck up their own DE, they now want to spread their cancer to every other DE.

But why KDE can?

Another punchline:

A: Lightbulbs are now depreciated, please use the sun to illuminate your desktop. Alternatively, install the flashlight extension.

Because Gnome devs are retarded and too busy sniffing glue.

dis

Because KDE people can reason. The reason why GNOME devs say that it's hard that they don't know how to handle directories with millions of files.

Would it be too hard to simply check if the number of files crosses a certain limit? Probably yes, for them.

Ok, I'm an outsider looking inside, and I've only been using *nix systems for a few years, but why the ever loving fuck would a foundation that exists in an already cash-strapped field freely donate money to an outreach program for women?

Why take steps to get women involved (not to mention transqueer bullshit)? If they are interested in FOSS and OSS they will, naturally, involve themselves in it.

Why must SJWs ruin everything I love? Why can't they build their own projects!

Wasn't GNOME started by Icaza who in general behaves intelligent - except when he started to rewrite all M$ for linux - which I didn't grokked - but it's a free world - so why not?

I found GNOME better than KDE back in 2004 when I tried both. KDE was like a bogging fucking monster with a shiny ass and gnome was like a serious gentleman smoking a cigarette calmly in a 1930s detective office.

The one who's responsible for outreach left GNOME shortly before they announced their shortage of funds.

Beaners never behave intelligent, user.

Queer is the new gay.

Gnome 2 was fine (except for some dumb shit like gconf) but 3 is just awful.

>1993 - People bitching about DE on UNIX form a committee and shit out CDE
>2018 - People bitching about DE on Unix-clones form a committee and shit out GNOME

It's takes a real man and no committee to make a good desktop for UNIX and thank god Steve Jobs did it.

>Sup Forums getting triggered
Brace yourself for the canned "insults"

>redpill me

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Gnome devs might have decent ideas, but they aren't doing the "revolution" and neither are KDE devs.

It's just a big, shiny circlejerk. You want to do it your way, without listening to other people's opinions? Go closed source. Doing FOSS means listening to criticism too.

>Go closed sourc
I hope they do. Because that's going to instantly kill GNOME.

This! Fuck i would love it if this happened. We might finally get thumbnails in the file window

>redpill
>*gate
>quick rundown
Just put this thread in the trash already

>redpill me
Hitler was a socialist.

>I will tolerate no opposition. We recognize only subordination – authority downwards and responsibility upwards. You just tell the German bourgeoisie that I shall be finished with them far quicker than I shall with marxism... When once the conservative forces in Germany realize that only I and my party can win the German proletariat over to the State and that no parliamentary games can be played with marxist parties, then Germany will be saved for all time, then we can found a German Peoples State.

Yea, was talking about 2.12 - 2.16 - metacity wasn't bad. Switched to blackbox wm later anyway, kek.

>gnome shills have no arguments
>attempt to derail all threads
Nice. Nothing demonstrates that you are panicking about the Gnomegate affair more than your behaviour.

Your dense motherfucker.

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>redpill me

Hitler was a socialist. People forget that. If he would have dropped a gear on the jews and in general be a more humble guy, god, then Germany would have been the new Mekka of the free world. Instead - shithole capitalism is preparing to turn the world into a new feudal society - fuck this shit.

[DAMAGE CONTROL INTENSIFIES]

I'm so glad the good guys won!

what a piece of shit, they sole reason to do this shit is only to destroy projects and THEY KNOW IT
is like the new "Nigerian Prince" scam with difference that if you reject it they call you raycist and get your money anyway

>taking options away from the user

butthurt retards are butthurt because title bars are retarded and gnome is forcing CSDs because they want stupid title bars to at least have something more than a close button and a title.

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>redpill me

>redpill

That's not how you do that. You would need to make the file manager automatically generate small thumbnail files and store them in a directory somewhere and link them someway to the file name of the originals. then the file manager just loads the thumbnail files instead of that default thumbnail image.

thats how windows does it.

>redpill me

Son you are not ready but I will show you the way.

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