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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm a big fan of this, but I wish more drastic theming got better love. (yes I'm aware of stopthemeingmyapp or whatever)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The question now is, when will they remove it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice, this will make the desktop look pretty cool although I think it might be libadwaita only.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I think it's based on the xdg-desktop-portal accent color support, but there were specific hooks added to libadwaita to handle that desktop standard, at least that's my guess based on this.

Definitely glad we have the major desktops all natively supporting accent colors now, it's been a long time coming.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm happy to see it's finally happening, and I hope they left its implementation flexible.

What I'd really love to see (aside from triple buffer) is a real solution to the system tray situation. AppIndicator is problematic for some apps and under certain X11/Wayland desktops, and even when it works well it is cumbersome to use compared to traditional tray implementations. Hoping we see a new approach soon.

In the meantime, I've been enjoying a revisit to KDE Plasma under Kinoite and I have to say I'm really impressed with both DEs!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Gnome have been trying to agree on a standardised, cross-desktop system tray replacement for a long time now. Unfortunately it hasn't really got anywhere, so it'll be a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes! They can't just abandon the system tray....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

And I don't even care if they keep it as a "tray". I'd be content with integration into the dash if they can make it work smoothly. For example, just having the app start minimized as a regular icon (or segregated icon) in the dash...just something at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its just going to be the number 1 installed mod, and leave everybody facepalming

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, it'll be there for those who want it. As an extension. It isn't part of the vision the project has so they won't implement it, they already have the Background Apps section for things like these. Simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What happened in Gnome for them to merge so much stuff recently?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Simple, they've been working with goals of each release, so most of the things that clearly aren't going to make it to the next release don't get top priority compared to the things that will. It also just so happened that a ton of these year-spanding works have finally being considered done today lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Yay go Alice!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

It's about damn time

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

Oh, finally!