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So, why should GNOME support server side decorations? (blister.zip)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57302675

an article explaining why GNOME should support SSD, but also arguing against the reasons often given for why they shouldn't

If someone could repost this to r/GNOME I would appreciate it, since I don't have a reddit account.

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[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I 100% agree, but I didn't want to come across too accusatory in my article so I chose to indirectly adress it in this paragraph:

The real problem is the idea that GNOME project shouldn’t cater to [people who want SSD]. It would be like GNOME not supporting xdg-file-chooser and saying that each app should ship their own file picker. But GNOME does support it, and only apps that wish to implement their own file picker do so.

Since both approaches are used, and liked, miscellaneous advantages and disadvantages of either approach are irrelevant, and so are other arguments pertaining to design. This is why I haven’t brought them up.

basically saying I think their vision doesn't matter when it comes to supporting things like that for third party apps.

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