Nick @ The Linux Experiment (npub1djp…8kck) Libadwaita is the reason why the Linux desktop has been broken for the past many months. No offense but I feel like the Gnome-centric people do not understand this. We work with XFCE for our custom distro and so far our distro is the most UI conistent that I ever tested. GTK, QT and their versions, even some flatpaks, respect the system's theme. Yet when they released libadwaita all of that broke entirely. We have to use a patch to make these apps work. That's terrible, unless you think Linux is Gnome. Gnome broke the consistency on ALL of the other desktops because of their libadwaita, regardless what their intention was.
Gnome also destroyed the classic menus that were so useful. They implemented that hamburger menu that requires multiple clicks to be used, and does not work with the Heads Up Display, a super useful utility for everyone, more so for people with disabilities. A unique feature allowing anyone to search through menus. We still have that for our distro and the only apps that are not playing well are, of course, the "gnome apps".
So if anything, Gnome created a desktop that looks ok (if you like 2 shades and a few color choices) but only for the specific gtk+libadwaita apps. The rest is a complete mess. Fonts, icons, dark/light, themes overall, window buttons, nothing is coherent. I have a Peertube channel where I look at these in more detail videos.trom.tf/c/lut/videos
Mind you I have tested thousands of apps. We have our own apps library for TROMjaro, so the sample size is quite big. That's where my conclusions come from.
I stand behind what we did for TROMjaro where pretty much everything looks coherent. Themes, fonts, icons. Cross libraries.
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