Edit: I forgot to add context: Emmanuele Bassi (@ebassi) (pejoratively called here ebussy) is one of GNOME developers, known for removing “unnecessary” features.

screenshot from gitlab featuring ebassi

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Gnome devs judge release success by the amount of features they managed to remove since last release and make it easier to maintain.

    Eventually it’ll be one button in the middle of the screen that turns it on and off.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      0·
      5 months ago

      haha ok this becomes funny in this new light

      And would you consider he’s actively harming gnome development ?

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        IDK, I’ve found Gnome unusable for a long time. I tried to make up for it with extensions for a while, but every release would unapologetically break something I found essential and the extension devs would give up trying to keep them going.

        I understand that eventually they got better about dropping breaking changes without warning, because extension devs were leaving in droves, but at that point KDE got good again with Plasma, and I’ve never looked back.

        Gnome has their vision to be a completely hands off, dumbed-down, unbreakable DE for the lowest common denominator. I guess judged by that light, it’s a success. It’s the default in a lot of distros because it’s low maintenance for packaging and support. Frankly, I think it’s a major reason for the slow speed of Linux desktop uptake, but what do I know.