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by JCWasmx86 1534 days ago
I nearly fully disagree with this article. Yes, there are still some inconsistencies with GTK3 and GTK4+Libadwaita, but that is expected, if you update your toolkit from one major version to another.

But for example blanket looks a lot better now, the button of the slider is far more visible.

kgx is, compared to the old GNOME-Console a lot nicer to use. Already the changing colours to violet for SSH and red for root-access are already a really nice feature.

Sure there are maybe some bugs and/or leftovers from the GTK3-GTK4 transition, but same as above, it will be fixed sometime.

> GNOME is still coupled to dubious libraries, with no way to avoid them unless heavily patching the code:

GDM depends on systemd || And now we also have libadwaita

systemd is standard for linux. And libadwaita is well, an extension to GTK, the Toolkit for GNOME => Absolutely appropriate.

Sure the dependency on WebKitGtk and Evolution is not that good, but at least Webkitgtk is installed on every GNOME-Desktop for other things.

But calling it "dubious" is not that appropriate, as they always have a sense. A dubious dependency would be - imo -, if GNOME depended on Wine or Qt

> ...Nvidia drivers can be problematic,...

That's only the fault of Nvidia. If they would do the same as Intel and AMD, nobody would have problems with those drivers.

> clearly incomplete and, in a nutshell, meaningless

Maybe for the author, but a lot was done, the screenshot tool is soo nice to use, the applications often got better. (In my opinion at least)

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GDM isn't coupled to systemd AFAIK, I ran it on my Void machine just fine, unless you mean elogind