@ebassi Just recently I got an issue from a user on KDE who has Reduced Motion (or similar) enabled there but our GTK app on Flatpak doesn't inherit it from KDE, only (the old option) from GNOME.

@lazarus @ebassi well the reasonable time thing is the issue for me.. while I got involved with @pidgin in 2003.. I took it over in January of 2016 to get 3.0 finished... We're 2 months away from that being 10 years ago and all I have to show for it is 4 experimental releases that I don't even recommend for third party protocol developers because the API is still too unstable...

If it's not obvious I've been reflecting on this stuff a lot lately and questioning whether or not to continue.

@grimmy @ebassi yes, of course. similar for my language bindings I‘m working on since four years. but given I‘ve got only few spare time I really only invested some days real development time. that‘s ok for me after all. have to see how far I get during the next months and if results are satisfying then.

https://codeberg.org/ObjGTK

@ebassi Wow, that's amazing! Thank you very much for your great work – on this and so much else!

@ebassi I had the displeasure of using an apple product a couple years ago and I think the best part was sitting and watching the same extremely distracting 6 second animation for the 400th time. It feels like youre watching a presentation. I know you guys pay your designers... you don't need to remind me.

@ebassi for some reason a lot of people are convinced that it's the same as Microsoft's nagging and that such projects would somehow end up the same way, except they would have nothing to gain as they have nothing to sell.

@ebassi the usual "everyone should do an effort!" and then refuse (not because they can't) to help when asked to...

@ebassi Must... destroy... GNOME... ghhhhhhh...

@ebassi actually a good take for a gnome dev

@gianmarcogg03 @ebassi it is anoying. stop begging when i'm on my puter. if i ever have money that i can donate, i will do so.

@condret @ebassi at least on KDE Plasma, it appears once a year in december and disabling it permanently is a few clicks away.

@gianmarcogg03 @ebassi on i3 it never happens, on stumpwm it never happens, on ratpoisonwm it never happens

@ebassi hyprland asked me to do that and I was tempted to go full theo t3 and offer them money in exchange for removing vaxry and replacing him with a security expert

@condret @ebassi they don't need the money as they are simple programs that don't do as much.

@gianmarcogg03 @ebassi yeah, gnome and kde are fat rats, which is why more people should use ratpoisonwm

@ebassi you'd probably still need, well, probably want, a company to keep a web browser engine alive tbh. Maybe im misunderstanding what youre saying here, but its a massive undertaking that many of us critically depend on

The problem is that social media managers end up taking CTO positions, really.

@swags you don’t need a company, you just need a legal entity—and you can get away with a non-profit for that.

I was also not referring to just Mozilla with that sentence.

@ebassi Ah right, I get what you mean. I guess we're just really lucky with webkit and chromium then.

@ebassi they still make the best browser

it genuinely is the web users who suck

@ebassi this is safe place, albeit every time I see it, visually it feels dopamine overdose

@ebassi knockout tour was addicting as hell