Dendrobatus Azureus<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rl_dane</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@tripplehelix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tripplehelix</span></a></span> </p><p>Do you know what I did decades ago when Gnome removed easily configurable features? I just went to another Window / Desktop manager combination. I was playing with fvwm Enlightenment Black Box FluxBox & others before KDE & Gnome.</p><p>I compiled fvwm from sources way back in the beginning, when Linux had no x Windows at all, when we literally had to build everything from sources even use a disc editor to put magic bytes on the boot sector first on the floppy and then later on on the MBR of the ATA hard drive </p><p>IMHO Enlightenment still rocks even today!</p><p>Regardless of the reasons of the programmers of Gnome to go that route of in_configurability decades ago, they have many many people like that desktop environment.</p><p>Ironic but both the rigid in_configurability of Gnome and the configurability to the pixel of KDE is needed for the planet.</p><p>For similar reasons many Legacy Window Managers not only still exist, but are actively maintained, so that they can compile in current POSIX operating systems</p><p>I, for example can't understand why people need to use Apple Hardware, which is inferior, in an Apple 🍎 ecosystem which dominates every move you make, but obviously millions of people in the States who need it exist, otherwise they wouldn't buy a phone that's produced for $10 for $2,000 right?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DesktopManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesktopManager</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WindowManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowManager</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/GTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GTK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a></p>