Image by: Nuno Pinheiro Following posts on specific work being done on Oxygen, this post is going to try to go beyond the manifest work and look at the bigger picture driving it. The motivation for…
“like a quiet servant - there when you need it, out of sight elsewhere”
this doesnt at all reflect my experience with oversimplified things like gnome or libadwaita. things specifically are not there when i need them. thats the whole problem.
I feel like the problem of GNOME is not minimalism - it’s lack of proper customization. It’s a minimal setup that works for GNOME devs, but not you.
Personally, I enjoy using Adwaita apps under KDE. Adwaita works great with the “one app - one purpose” philosophy, while KDE allows you to make global arrangements the way you like, so that everything you need is at your fingertips, and everything you don’t is out of the way. You can customize KDE to look in a way that compliments Adwaita, and it looks and works very well.
This is also exactly my problem with minimalist systems. That, and things being hardcoded in a way I don’t like and not having any reasonable recourse to change it.
overall i enjoy what you said, but …
“like a quiet servant - there when you need it, out of sight elsewhere”
this doesnt at all reflect my experience with oversimplified things like gnome or libadwaita. things specifically are not there when i need them. thats the whole problem.
edit - formatting
I feel like the problem of GNOME is not minimalism - it’s lack of proper customization. It’s a minimal setup that works for GNOME devs, but not you.
Personally, I enjoy using Adwaita apps under KDE. Adwaita works great with the “one app - one purpose” philosophy, while KDE allows you to make global arrangements the way you like, so that everything you need is at your fingertips, and everything you don’t is out of the way. You can customize KDE to look in a way that compliments Adwaita, and it looks and works very well.
This is also exactly my problem with minimalist systems. That, and things being hardcoded in a way I don’t like and not having any reasonable recourse to change it.