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It's already dying on X.

The new Gnome apps for instance don't respect standard interaction even when the window manager is Gnome. (For instance, if a window has a modal dialog box open, you can't move the window; I think I've also had issues with pushing windows back despite this being a configuration option.)

If you use Chromium too, it doesn't respect your settings for where the minimise/maximise/close etc buttons go until you right click somewhere and say "let me forget that your developers think they're so special they have to remind me i'm using your app every time i want to immerse myself".

Gnome people will probably say "it's a trivial bug which we will fix shortly". But in reality it's intrinsic to the design. Now instead of picking an application which does its job well and a window manager which does its job well, you have to pick an application which manages its own windows well and does its job well. All because someone thought it's prettier if title bars have menu bars in them.




Commercial linux applications are hands down the worst in this regard. I don't think I've used one yet that look and behaved well in terms of focus/menus/clipboard/events/look-and-feel. Even ones made in QT are statically linked and a different version from the distribution one so it ignores all your preferences (I think that's the reason).

The push to make everything electron just means that everyone else is having this problem now.


Ok GTK3 is just awfull but no one is taking it seriously and actually building things with it right?




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