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Joshua Strobl
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Joshua Strobl's personal blog at joshuastrobl.com covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Building an Alternative Ecosystem: Solus Project Abandons Move to GTK4”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Software engineer living in Helsinki, Finland. Open source advocate and open source org lead.
Most-linked posts?
- Building an Alternative Ecosystem: Solus Project Abandons Move to GTK49 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-09-14
What Hacker News says?
I will translate that very surprising comment whom made my choice : --start of comment-- [quote]does S76 announces they're targetting to recreate their own desktop from scratcch, or they "just modify things" whom are not really good with the gnome desktop of today, keeping the rest (running GTK if Im well)? [/quote] Official communication(1) says "we're doing to do our own desktop because gnome extensions are too br…
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on “5 Years of Pop _OS”Submitted Building an Alternative Ecosystem: Solus Project Abandons Move to GTK4 as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI will translate that very surprising comment whom made my choice : --start of comment-- [quote]does S76 announces they're targetting to recreate their own desktop from scratcch, or they "just modify things" whom are not really good with the gnome desktop of today, keeping the rest (running GTK if Im well)? [/quote] Official communication(1) says "we're doing to do our own desktop because gnome extensions are too br…
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on “5 Years of Pop _OS”Submitted Building an Alternative Ecosystem as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI think Gnome / GTK is a good example. Famously, the Budgie Desktop Environment will have to be rewritten on top of Enlightenment because they don't like the GTK 4 changes. So now they're forced to go to a different widget system. [1] [1] https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-...
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on “I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium”Submitted Building an Alternative Ecosystem as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOh yeah, no. Multiple entire desktop environments with significant popularity (Cinnamon, MATE) owe their existence today to how universally hated GNOME 3 was, and how obstinant and intolerant the GNOME developers were towards differing opinions that challenged their "vision". In fact, the same thing is sorta playing out even right now with GTK4 and other GNOME stuff, though I think with somewhat less public spectacl…
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on “Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"”Submitted Building an Alternative Ecosystem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGNOME as a project has consistently made itself clear on how it feels about the rest of the desktop Linux ecosystem existing, or working well with it: 2012 — https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti... 2021 — https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-... 2023 — https://felipec.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/one-decade-later-gn... 2023 — https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-mess-is-not-an…
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on “The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps”Submitted Building an Alternative Ecosystem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis might be relevant - (Solus devs voting with heir feet) https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-...
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on “The Truth they are not telling you about “Themes””
