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by yjftsjthsd-h 915 days ago
Ecosystem effects mean that it kind of is. Even if we made the software in question (probably on top of wlroots, maybe even just extending wayfire which IIRC kind of already has the plugin system you need?) there is zero chance GNOME or KDE will use it, and I wouldn't bet even on sway or such.
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vidarh 915 days ago
Well, if people are using Gnome or KDE they've already largely chosen conformity, so why care about that?
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yjftsjthsd-h 915 days ago
On the one hand, yes, I'm tempted to just ignore GNOME+KDE because they'll never play nice, and just go build something better without them.

On the other hand, this means that the ecosystem overall stays fragmented and we get an eternal state of "to do X in Windows do foo, in MacOS do bar, and on desktop Linux see this wiki page discussing your options". And while I suppose there would be value in ex. screenshot tools only needing 3 code paths, it would have been nice to only need 1.

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