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by im_down_w_otp 1621 days ago
Except it isn't. In order to deal with something as simple as unifying how keyboard shortcuts work across the UI (the desktop environment, intra-UI idioms for movement & selection, etc.) I'd have to unpack 30 years of legacy X11 decisions and idiosyncrasies, sort out how to reform numerous different UI toolkits, and often dig into the applications themselves on an application by application basis.

It's often impenetrable despite its being open source.