I know it’s relatively a recent concept but they can always say “these are our apps and they are well integrated in our DE” instead of making them inseparable part of the DE. They probably want to reach a standard like MacOS, and that’s not a bad thing but that restricts the developers.
I always preferred GTK over Qt and I still do, however I can understand the developers who want to use another framework.
While the intention is respectable, there are still Qt apps with no GTK equivalent or vice versa. If you need those, you still cannot go pure GTK or pure Qt. It’s a dream.
I don’t think I worried about “DE bloat” any time in the past ten years. Might be different if I was using Raspi desktop. :)
Well, I’m a happy WM user since 2014 as well (GNOME 2.32 was my last favourite DE on my main machine) but I still have to install KDE or GNOME bloat. Only thing I can do about that is using flatpaks for those programs but I prefer package manager. Flatpaks are heavy, slow updating and use more space.
I know it’s relatively a recent concept but they can always say “these are our apps and they are well integrated in our DE” instead of making them inseparable part of the DE. They probably want to reach a standard like MacOS, and that’s not a bad thing but that restricts the developers.
I always preferred GTK over Qt and I still do, however I can understand the developers who want to use another framework.
While the intention is respectable, there are still Qt apps with no GTK equivalent or vice versa. If you need those, you still cannot go pure GTK or pure Qt. It’s a dream.
Well, I’m a happy WM user since 2014 as well (GNOME 2.32 was my last favourite DE on my main machine) but I still have to install KDE or GNOME bloat. Only thing I can do about that is using flatpaks for those programs but I prefer package manager. Flatpaks are heavy, slow updating and use more space.