On 8 August 2025 04:53:57 UTC, Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote: >* Pyromania <[email protected]> [2025-08-07 23:57]: >> > You may contribute and improve whatever you wish. Look there are >> > different forks of Gnome. >> >> My or a few others’ contribution to Gnome and/or GTK doesn’t change the >> direction they are heading to. However, that’s another topic. > >You may put yourself in causative state and influence by talking. Or >you may have conclusion, which is obviously and practically not true >that you can't change something and then remain passive. > >I have filed bugs, and developers improved software. I have proposed >features which have been implemented. > >The key to success in life is to communicate. > >Remaining silent will not bring any effect. > >Above I said "which is obviously and practically not true" -- because >other people who communicate they contribute and shape the project. > >And when you need some private features, you can still ask developers >to help and you can give some cash, when someone is too busy to put >attention on your requests. Problem is also that many are not money >motivated. > >Jean Louis > >--- >via emacs-tangents mailing list >(https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
Many changes they are making in Gnome doesn't need any contribution; old, well tested and solid stable features just has been removed. Hundreds complained, blog posts writen, issues opened, people migrated to other DEs, forks suffered, apps broken, compatibility lost. But still Gnome is on the same course. And no, I wasn't silent. I maintain 6 laptops and 2 desktops for my friends and family members, for free; so, they use and learn GNU/Linux, instead of Windows. All of them had Gnome desktop. When Gnome was hitting the last straws, I had a hard time migrating all those machines to KDE and Xfce4. I had a harder time teaching the users how to do things on the new desktop they chose. Etc, etc, etc. Read the long story from my short paragraph. HOWEVER, the gnome and gtk controvetsy is another topic I don't want to talk about right now. Because, it is very flammable and I don't have the time to debate. --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
