All I want is the ability to disable client side decorations without having to force xwayland with gtk3-classic
They could just accept GTK 4. Anyway, they will need some GTK 4/libadwaita support as there are an increasing number of apps that use it.
I don’t see libadadwaita as progress. Last week, simple-scan got an update and is stuck to a dark theme since then. To change it, i would have to install gnome-settings and klick a button there. Can’t do that via my usual keyboard-combo.
edit: edited Gnome’s ‘don’t theme our apps’ away since it’s beside the point.
If you actually read through that they say theme away to your heart’s content, just please don’t report issues to the app developer, report it to the theme developer.
They say that lots of time they could spend developing is managing and investigating bugs that end up being due to the user installing some random poorly-made theme, wasting precious dev time that they are donating for free.
It’s a perfectly reasonable request, and has no bearing on whether an app is proprietary or not.
E: the guy above has drastically changed their comment so now mine probably doesn’t make sense.
I admit i stopped reading after i got alienated by the bullet points. And Gnomes points after are nice and all, but only caring about their own vision is not the solution either, especially if you create one of the two main GUI frameworks. A tool is not an art piece but something that has to adapt to the user.
So you tried to shit on developers by posting a link to a completely reasonable request (“theming is fine but please be mindful of wasting our limited time by bombarding us with bug reports related to janky themes”) that you hadn’t even read. Got it.
People need to understand that none of this development is free. These people donate their time to make these projects for us to have, completely free of charge. Investigating a bug can take hours, or days, sometimes longer. Imagine doing that and it turns out there wasn’t a bug with your program at all, it was with a theme that the user installed. I’d also be pissed off about the time I’m donating for the good of the community being wasted.
No, i didn’t. Calm down.
You absolutely did lol. You complained about them and it reeked of entitlement. You don’t have a God-given right for the developer of every app to investigate issues with somebody else’s themes.
I see you’ve edited away much of it though. Sneaky.
Yeah, and i stated why. Stop trolling.
Once in a while I check the installed packages for a possible dependency on GTK and when I find a program which has one, I look for an alternative to have one dependency less.
The last time I replaced simple-scan with skanlite and it is a much much better scanning program and with a more pleasant ui on top.
For some reason it is not yet on Flathub
Assuming you are using Mint, Skanlite can be found in the software manager.
I am not using Mint and it is also in the Fedora repos, but there is no reason for it to not be on Flathub. Maybe when I find the time I try to package it.
Honestly, for me, if it’s available from my OS’s repos and not horribly out of date, I use that one.
I’d rather have my app just work, not consume twice the resources and actually listen to my theme (inc the mouse, somehow)
On KDE Plasma theming and Cursors work with Flatpaks normally
