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> The general demeanor of the team has been my-way-or-the-highway, so making suggestions mostly gets you labelled as a troll in their gitlab and sees you forcibly removed if you don't give up and assimilate into their opinion.

Remember:

> I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I'm sorry that this is the case but it wasn't GNOME's fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.

> It is my hope that you are a GNOME app. Yes this kind of fragmentation is unfortunate. I'm not happy about it either. Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up. Wish you the best.

This was a message from a GNOME dev about the transmission torrent client, 11 years ago. I guess they're consistent with themselves over time at least.

The issue about border decorations on Wayland on their gitlab was also bewilderingly infuriating.



(the issue about border decorations: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217)


> And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.

Where is this from?



Heh, drive by comment saying app functionality will be broken with no clear replacement, from someone who didn't even know a major desktop environment at the time, then proposals from another dev to completely rearchitect the app about 6 years later.

Nice.




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