h_anna_h

I do not believe that you went through my comment history in the few minutes that it took for you to respond to me.

Also, something that I did not mention before

> ...but that your views are considered problematic by quite a lot of people?

This is not a justification for toxicity.

> and having randos holding knives knocking on people's windows

Are you referring to some specific event?

4chan is not only /pol/. The culture between boards is vastly different. Although I do not disagree, /pol/ specifically is toxic.

And it's not as if reddit does not have its own share of similar forums.

Yes? I thought that you did not assume good faith from me. I did not think that you were not acting in good faith.

People on 4chan will call you slurs and insults but it is never personal, part of it is due to the anonymous nature. People here will be personally vicious and hostile.

> ...but that your views are considered problematic by quite a lot of people?

You do not know what my views are. It's as if you are trying to prove me right honestly. (btw, I am not posting on reddit nor on twitter, nor 4chan for that matter)

Plus the same could be said for the toxic interactions that you had on there.

> Perhaps that could be some cause for self reflection before you universally declare the entire platform here hostile and toxic.

Again, same thing for you. "Perhaps that could be some cause for self reflection before you universally declare the entire platform there hostile and toxic."

Not really, I would go as far as to argue that it is less toxic than reddit, twitter, and even HN.

What about competition?

Or well, not acting evil.

> Sure, but this fragmentation isn't exactly new. There have always been multiple toolkits on Linux

I think that we got a little bit sidetracked. "I want my users to be able to be able to select what borders to have" -> "the user can choose to use GTK or Qt apps" -> "it encourages duplicate work for minor differences" -> "fragmentation isn't exactly new"

Fragmentation might not be new but I would really rather not re-write my UI in another toolkit just to offer a second border option.

> that will be broken if you use it outside the recommended environment as the HIGs won't match

Depends on your definition of broken I guess. If you consider the user unbinding C-q from "quit" as broken because "the HIGs won't match" then I would have to say that I disagree. If the user wants to make "breaking" chances to my applications they should be free, especially since I don't believe that any big issues will be caused. If some minor issues are caused at certain configurations then that's fine, after all the user could revert to the default config if they encounter an issue that breaks their use-case or makes the interaction feel inferior to the default one.

> Well, no it doesn't

Thank you for the correction, I take it back. I guess if I go with gtk4 I would have to use a mix of gtk4+libdecor in order to have "native" borders in all WMs, is that correct?

> Most older apps aren't like this.

What do you mean by "older apps"? Motif-era, gtk2-era, or gtk3-era? I do not think that I had a big issue with any of them but I could be forgetting something.

> GNOME is not a tiling WM

Well, yeah, because GNOME is not a WM :p

By "going out of their way" I meant specifically the decision to implement CSD.

In general I think that GNOME should be able to do whatever it wants, I just wish that they would play better with the other players (and well, the users).

> The way you're phrasing is confusing. To me it's like saying "every vehicle has four wheels except bicycles". Well I guess you could say that for some subset of vehicles, but I don't understand what the distinction here is supposed to be, or why that even matters.

More like "all (relevant) C compilers except MSVC support C99 VLAs", or "all mobile phones in the EU except apple's use a standard charger". The point is that while xdg-decoration might be an optional extension in reality it is pretty much standard except in two WMs that require special handling.

> It does, the user can choose to use GTK or Qt apps.

That's... not what I meant by it. I find this dangerous as it encourages duplicate work for minor differences.

I would rather not have to make both a GTK and a Qt version of my program just so my users can have the ability to do some basic customization.

> So making it all configurable is just guaranteeing that the app is broken out of the box

Not sure why you think that. You just put the existing choices as the defaults.

> You may have to accept that some apps are not built to work in a tiling WM

What about my apps then? As a programmer I want my programs to be friendly for both tiling and non-tiling WMs. This by itself excludes gtk as an option for me.

As for some apps not built to work in tiling WMs, the changes needed to make them work properly are usually extremely minor. To be honest it feels like the GNOME team is going out of their way to degrade the usability of their apps (and apps using gtk) for tiled WMs.

> In my experience, you will have a lot of trouble with some apps for various other reasons too

Some apps might have some minor issues that can usually be solved without a lot of effort, but even if they are not they don't usually pose any problem.

> I'm confused, you said everything supports it, but then immediately listed something that didn't support it.

Yes? Everything except mutter supports it as far as I know. Is there something difficult to understand here?

Edit: I heard that Enlightenment does not support it either.

> I don't want that when I'm making apps. If I'm making a GTK app then I would expect to get the GTK borders. If I'm making a Qt app then I would expect to get the Qt borders. And so on.

Surely the choice should fall on the user.

> That's a good way to ensure you get conflicting gestures/keybinds, inconsistent theming, and just a general lack of consistency.

Which is why we would like all of these to be configurable.

> The common ground would be drawing your own decorations because that's the way any Wayland server works by default

What if I, as a user of a tiling wm don't want any decorations?

> Xdg-decoration is an optional extension

That everything supports it afaik. (except mutter?)

Patches for it have been submitted but they were never merged. Some users even patch gtk themselves.

People were actually annoyed when they replaced the normal search with the new recursive one, so I doubt it.

> No one in the thread could post one so far.

This is false, I posted this before:

> Just look at all these people who went to jail for crimes related to illegal numbers (eg. piracy). Or people like Mildred Gillars. Or the various whistleblowers.