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Unity came before Gnome 3. A lot of designers were chasing this convergence GUI, trying to find the GUI that was desktop and mobile. Windows 8 was also a symptom of this. Turns out this whole mouse pointer interface really isn't compatible with dragging fat greasy meat digits on polished gorilla glass. Windows learned this lesson. Gnome hasn't yet.
Dec 16 · 1 day ago
I Hate Gnome — A recent post about a Gemini browser built with libadwaita got me curious and I wish it hadn't. Every time I look at the tech under Gnome it makes me vomit a little, so I don't. But then time goes by and I forget. Then I look again and I vomit yet again. Gtk is just a terrible monstrosity, a Frankensteinian monster with bizzare bolted on object model that clearly stinks, and a weird xml layer to describe GUI objects what we used to call "controls", and some weird html/css like...