| > What exactly are they comparing GNOME to?
To everything else that is not GNOME. I gave many examples along the article. It's not a matter of being 'frozen in time'. Changing just for the sake of change doesn't add much. As I said, new UI paradigm is welcome but it has to be at least more efficient, which is not the case. > Name one complete desktop application platform from the last ten years that doesn't come with an equivalent to WebKitWebView. This 'last ten years' may be misleading. GNOME was created more than 20 years ago. Does it count? If you mean, desktop environments that are still being developed, which includes GNOME, then I have some examples that don't depend on any browser engine: LXDE, LXQt and Xfce. > you can always right click on a blank space, or click the current folder in the breadcrumbs bar, and choose "Open in Terminal". It works, sure. But it is less efficient for no good reason, and that's my point. > And I'm sure XFCE can be built in five minutes if you just grab a prebuilt libgtk, but you should probably be asking, where did that library come from? GNOME also depends on GTK. Actually, it's worse than that: it depends on both GTK3 and GTK4. But anyway, GTK3 compiles in less than 15 minutes on my machine. :) > You're welcome? Thanks, but you didn't get my point. > Anyway, choose a less inflammatory title next time. Thanks again. You have a point here, indeed. |