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Most of my computers use Void and the system is very minimal and I do my best to avoid getting Qt installed — my distaste for which comes back from the days when Qt software in general was more bloated and slow, I know that in comparison it might no longer be true, but it's a matter of habit.
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Unlike Qt, which is a monolithic behemoth, software being GNOME usually doesn't mean a thing — it's not even that tightly integrated, it just means that UI is GTK-based, maybe with a few additional minor dependencies, which is fine by me. Again, that might turn out to not be true — there is software built in Vala.
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Sometimes I grow tired of splitting my posts into multiple parts and think of finding an instance that won't make me do that or of adding a visible character count for the input field in Bloat, which would at least make the task easier… But then I wake up 🤪
@Hyolobrika
I haven't tried GNOME (or any full DE) in a while — they might be all awful to me at this point 😂 I want just the basic window management: be it dwm or sway, and I want to map shortcuts to launch the software I want. I already rely on some GTK-based software so I have the libraries installed, GNOME software isn't something deeply integrated — in most cases it's just something GTK-based — already having those libraries makes me fine with it.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org
I have once made a template for gnome-feeds — an RSS reader, but it was in Vala and in the next version the *syntax* of Vala changed and it required Vala itself to be updated — my god, more patching! Eventually someone added it to upstream void-packages and it's no longer a problem, but that gave me a taste of what GNOME software can be. The RSS reader isn't even that good — uses tons of RAM, so I no longer use it 😂
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