> By all means, if you like the way Mac handles this, you should use a Mac.
So let me recap:
1. You've said Gtk/GNOME relies on volunteer contributions;
2. GNOME removes (or refuses to implement, mutter#217) perfectly reasonable features that both regular and power users need/want/rely on, without providing alternatives (unless the plan is to get libadwaita eventually linked into the kernel);
3. You tell someone who shows interest in said features (outlining alternative designs, implementations, diving into some of the edge cases, and weighting their pros and cons), that if they like these features, they should use macOS instead.
Conclusion: GNOME drives away the same people who have the motivation and expertise to contribute to the platform. Self-sabotage.
Here's a hint: it works for Apple, because Apple produces a polished and highly desirable product. But even Apple caters to their professional audience. It works for suckless, because they're elitists and mostly irrelevant. But even suckless maintains an official repo of community patches.
How many active forks of KDE do we have out there?
So let me recap:
1. You've said Gtk/GNOME relies on volunteer contributions;
2. GNOME removes (or refuses to implement, mutter#217) perfectly reasonable features that both regular and power users need/want/rely on, without providing alternatives (unless the plan is to get libadwaita eventually linked into the kernel);
3. You tell someone who shows interest in said features (outlining alternative designs, implementations, diving into some of the edge cases, and weighting their pros and cons), that if they like these features, they should use macOS instead.
Conclusion: GNOME drives away the same people who have the motivation and expertise to contribute to the platform. Self-sabotage.
Here's a hint: it works for Apple, because Apple produces a polished and highly desirable product. But even Apple caters to their professional audience. It works for suckless, because they're elitists and mostly irrelevant. But even suckless maintains an official repo of community patches.
How many active forks of KDE do we have out there?