If they're going to do this they should have a real image viewer render images and control the coordinates of the image viewer's window by talking to the window manager. The operative word here being "should", us i3/Sway users recognize that some others may have this luxury (or not).
I remember when quality desktop ricing was a personal and novel thing, then there was commoditization of that beautiful thing and the posers outnumbered the organic ricers.
Looks like the same is happening for IDEs.
It'll fool other posers and macOS/Windows users, sure.
But when you watch someone work you can tell who carefully configured their plugins for Neovim they added incrementally over time.
It's like a suit. You can have a fancy suit, but people who have their own tailored suits can tell when the one you're wearing isn't really "your's".
I remember when quality desktop ricing was a personal and novel thing, then there was commoditization of that beautiful thing and the posers outnumbered the organic ricers.
Looks like the same is happening for IDEs.
It'll fool other posers and macOS/Windows users, sure.
But when you watch someone work you can tell who carefully configured their plugins for Neovim they added incrementally over time.
It's like a suit. You can have a fancy suit, but people who have their own tailored suits can tell when the one you're wearing isn't really "your's".