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I really don't care about my OS UI since I'm barely actually using it, especially after a few minutes setting up one-click actions. Less than 1% of my time and effort on the computer.
Applications, on the other hand, is where I live and FUCKING HELL!!!
Look, if everyone just decided on a style and everyone went with it within a system I'd be okay with that. It's not great but at least it wouldn't be jarring.
But having to live by the whim of 50 different app designers is disgusting. I just want to have a good time, not learn 50 different interfaces.
Though my thoughts on it would also stifle new ideas. So that's bad.
Try GNOME/GTK/adwaita apps. They are very consistent.
The GTK file chooser is probably the worst AND most inconsistent example of UX that I've ever seen
Contribute! Maybe you get a part of the 1 million Euro they got from the Sovereign Tech Fund.
Contribute with UX changes? To GNOME maintained software?
When it's an enhancement?
Enhancement? No, everything I have a problem with is explicitly intended behavior and GNOME devs are infamous for their everyone is stupid except me mentality
Edit, found a neat lil' example:
That's a dick way of saying fuck off but I mean they do provide a free service. If they have a vision and don't want to deal with random people whining about it that's their prerogative. Same as yours to find that utterly insufferable.
They do provide a free service (GTK's file chooser), one that I find horrible and inconsistent (as per the thread) and intentionally so (on issues tangential to example that I found, although the proposed configurable behavior would be nice) - so I won't even entertain the thought of trying and contributing to it, as it has been suggested.
I don't know what is insufferable about that, other than the initial criticism...
It's your prerogative to find them insufferable is what I meant to say. Your criticism and opinions are fair enough.
I've got to work on the fact that seeing the word "insufferable" on social media makes me instinctively get defensive ._.
Pretty sure that money is for the people employed by the GNOME Foundation, they don't just pay every contributor.
No, they don't, but you could get regular contributor…
They are indeed very similar.