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by skydhash 459 days ago
I'm currently using Gnome and their UI may not be the most beautiful or complete, but they've gone all in on consistency. I don't mind software like Blender, Audacity, and others having their own design systems as their domain is much more complicated. But a lot of software only needs a few controls and the native ones should suffice.
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cosmic_cheese 459 days ago
I don’t think it’s a coincedence that out of the Linux DE ecosystems, GNOME has probably the biggest presence in little third-party utilities made to match the environment. The DE itself is quite flawed in my opinion, but its consistent and opinionated design system catches the eyes of devs and would-be devs and motivates them to build things.

A similar effect I believe is what’s been largely responsible for the healthy botique indieware scene on macOS too.

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int_19h 459 days ago
I think what motivates people to patch over Gnome deficiencies is its position as the de facto standard "enterprise" DE, where you basically have no choice but to use it.
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cosmic_cheese 459 days ago
There’s a handful of third party apps that serve that function, but that’s really more the domain of GNOME shell extensions.

What I’m talking about are apps built not because there weren’t serviceable options in their categories prior, but because there weren’t any that made an effort to be at unity with the larger GNOME desktop. Apps like Errands[0], Folio[1], Shortwave[2], and Newsflash[3].

[0]: https://apps.gnome.org/en/List/ [1]: https://flathub.org/apps/com.toolstack.Folio [2]: https://apps.gnome.org/Shortwave/ [3]: https://apps.gnome.org/en/NewsFlash/

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