@eunews@mastodon.social thats positive news

@lxak@goblin.technology @vkc@linuxmom.net oh no, i didnt meant to question this, i just meant to say that extensions arent really necessary here, since there are at least 3 GUI options for changing it (and its being discussed to put it in Settings app)

@scruss@xoxo.zone @vkc@linuxmom.net

Gnome tried to get rid of icons on the desktop a few years ago. User pressure brought them back (admittedly through some pretty foul shell hacks)

That happened with release of GNOME 3, in 2011 and GNOME never brought them back.

@lxak@goblin.technology @vkc@linuxmom.net Why extension? There are other ways to do it

@draeand@the-gdn.net @vkc@linuxmom.net ehhhhhh…

https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world @vkc@linuxmom.net

GNOME is held accountable only to the developers and people within their foundation and not the community

GNOME is a project made out of volunteers, and helding volunteers "accountable" isn't ethical. If someone wants to take part if developing GNOME, or project in its proximity, there is guide https://welcome.gnome.org/ for people interested in contributing.

In fact, feedback is valuable, too. As long as it's respectful.

@glent@aus.social @vkc@linuxmom.net

What fuels the anger is the annoyance at the lack of reflection within Gnome of its role in the failure of desktop Linux.

Dude, are you fucking serious? 4% and constantly growing is a failure?

It's some project made by volunteers in their free time, people who are still personally offended GNOME 2 era is gone are owed NOTHING.

Most notably it's insular design choices in Gnome 3, and the early shipment of that non-ready software, reducing Linux's share of the market from MacOS levels to a third of that.

What the fuck are you talking about? Serious question.

Today, yet another insular design choice by Gnome

Ah yes, because surely feature that is constant source of confusion to more people that can be counted is insulated from the user base. If we sticked to the desires of loud minorities, we would get nowhere.

@eseilt@mastodon.scot @vkc@linuxmom.net

They do have a history of breaking workflows for no good reason.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

whose lives it makes more difficult will complain.

Is clicking some button difficult?

@theodric@social.linux.pizza @vkc@linuxmom.net You're talking as if the desktop hurt you personally.

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world @vkc@linuxmom.net worth noting most of those people dont use GNOME

@bruce@darkmoon.social @vkc@linuxmom.net pro-tip: it's impossible to tell intentions of people over text. tone indicators are the way to go