[neurobro]

I can't speak to the developer experience for Qt vs. GTK, but one day the scrollbars in the GTK-based programs I use started going into ultra slow motion if I held down the mouse button for 1/4 second.

While looking for a place to report the bug, I discovered this is an intentional "zoom" feature. Almost nobody knew about this amazing(?) feature, so with virtually no discussion, it was made to activate automatically to be more "discoverable".

Personally, my life would be better if I hadn't discovered this UX regres-(cough)-feature. This sort of thing also reflects poorly on the software using the library. (Initially I thought Synaptic was broken.)

I'm surprised that a mature library can change overnight in such a far-reaching way on some dude's whim.