| > Apart from distros that ship Epiphany browser, what else do distros use WebKit2Gtk for? https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/ApplicationsGtk: Epiphany, Yelp, Devhelp, SWT, Evolution, Pidgin, etc.... > It's dubious because it's a huge library that takes 1 hour to build [...] How often do you build GNOME-Control-Center with all of its dependencies? Sure, if you are using Gentoo/LFS, that is absolutely expected, but then you can afford to do one (maybe minor) patch to do it yourself. > The fact that you accept that is exactly what I talked about in this other article Yes, maybe one or two things like the increased memory usage are legit regressions, but GNOME is doing far less breakage/inconsistencies in a major version update than some multi-billion dollar company like Samsung or Microsoft. > Better believe they do all this on purpose, trying to discourage anyone from changing their masterpiece. (In the article) This is really the wrong conclusions, if extensions depend on some internals then you can expect them to break. That is like depending on some undocumented kernel feature of Windows 7 and then complaining that it is not there anymore. |