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Reminder: System76 is not to be trusted
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You can pin files on your sidebar. The COSMIC designers didn't realize how inefficient this is compared to just a starring/labeling system. The sidebar should be for bookmarked directories, pinning files makes no sense.
Also menu bar items combined with symbolic icons on window title-bar is just so unappealing, it's like they decided to do the opposite of GNOME just for kicks and not understanding why those design decisions were made in the first place.
Imagine having a desktop that is just gnome extensions
Lmao. They decided to have a GNOME like appearance, but not even follow the design decisions. I might like KDE more, but if you're going to go with GNOME-esque don't do that shit.
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They really went and invented their own desktop just because they got mad that they had to spend an evening or two every 6 months to port their gnome extension.
There is a schadenfreude I feel now that they've decided to take on a job that nobody wants: making a desktop for a userbase with more complaints than users.
But if it is so inefficient then why not just... not pin files there? I dunno it doesn't seem like it takes anything from you to have that option lol