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Reminder: System76 is not to be trusted
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Did you read the full blogpost? Whatever imagined enemy you've imagined the GNOME community to be, system76 is a capitalist firm in the US that stands to gain from denigrating projects like GNOME.
This isn't a beef between volunteers over some technical spat in a bug tracker. this is a pattern of slander and purposeful misinformation all designed to make GNOME out to be unreasonable while making s76 out like victims. All with the express intent of advertising their own product.
System76 doesn't claim to be victims, they claim technical disagreement.
How would they even benefit from slandering Gnome? They are selling laptops with Gnome desktop too.
None of you read the article it is impossible on hexbear to expect people to read the original article.
I read the article. But it's also not the first time I've heard about the story and I don't think you can go to the Gnome blog for a neutral perspective. There are other sources reporting that popos does upstream fixes.
The links to the twitter shit stirring is real.
I've read the tweets, talking about an actual degradation of features in a piece of software doesn't amount to "shit stirring" in my book.
Considering how many people have dogshit "takes" on GNOME about how they secretly hate theming and GTK is their personal playground to bully everyone, yeah it did.
Also I don't know where you come from, but posting passive aggressive ultimatums against volunteers in developing software is not a good look.
edit: found the gitlab mr the blog was referring to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/merge_requests/232
(J. Soller from S76)
Reposting the tweet here so someone reading this doesn't get it twisted:
J soller from S76 tweeted this
Not sure hate is the right word but Gnome sure seems to be getting rid of application theming. That's what at least half the post is about.
~~volunteers~~ IBM employees
I really don't get what your problem with sollers question here is. Of course he needs to know whether a compromise can be found with the Gnome project because it takes years to develop replacements. Of course he needs to make the call at some point whether it's more productive to continue work with Gnome or build something new and if you read the tweets it seems like it takes him fairly long to actually realize that gnome is removing theming, so he probably feels lead on.
I really don't understand why you are so upset about the decision of developing replacements after Gnome refused to continue providing theming support for their apps. For a desktop environment being able to theme the file browser seems like a pretty sensible requirement.