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God bless everyone putting effort into making Adwaita a little prettier, but GNOME 40 has been a trainwreck in my eyes. There are still glaring issues everywhere, and instead of the "sacred cow" slaughtering we were promised, we get more iteration on things people don't care about.

Here's an idea: anyone, literally anyone spend a few hours updating the GNOME thumbnail generation code. It's the sole reason why file managers and photo browsers don't feel 'snappy' on the desktop. Or maybe the new Chromebook-ified topbar could revert to it's 3.38 glory, instead of being stuck with meaningless bubbles. There are so many regressions, sidegrades and completely ignored issues that I had to switch to Cinnamon when GNOME 40 rolled out.

I'm hoping that most of these issues can be addressed in the coming months, but I don't have much faith. Everyone is seemingly more interested in making a 1.5gb Flatpak out of their 500kb shellutil.




GNOME is a volunteer project driven by people working on what they want to work on. If you want to improve the thumbnails, why not have that anyone be you?




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