@eunews@mastodon.social thats positive news

@draeand@the-gdn.net @emi@social.comfy.city @vkc@linuxmom.net accessibility is first-class citizen. But you know what? Its fucking difficult and companies do not bother to fund this effort. The only reason we have any accessibility at all is because Sun funded it for their Solaris.

@lxak@goblin.technology @vkc@linuxmom.net oh no, i didnt meant to question this, i just meant to say that extensions arent really necessary here, since there are at least 3 GUI options for changing it (and its being discussed to put it in Settings app)

@scruss@xoxo.zone @vkc@linuxmom.net

Gnome tried to get rid of icons on the desktop a few years ago. User pressure brought them back (admittedly through some pretty foul shell hacks)

That happened with release of GNOME 3, in 2011 and GNOME never brought them back.

@lxak@goblin.technology @vkc@linuxmom.net Why extension? There are other ways to do it

@draeand@the-gdn.net @vkc@linuxmom.net ehhhhhh…

https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world @vkc@linuxmom.net

GNOME is held accountable only to the developers and people within their foundation and not the community

GNOME is a project made out of volunteers, and helding volunteers "accountable" isn't ethical. If someone wants to take part if developing GNOME, or project in its proximity, there is guide https://welcome.gnome.org/ for people interested in contributing.

In fact, feedback is valuable, too. As long as it's respectful.

@glent@aus.social @vkc@linuxmom.net

What fuels the anger is the annoyance at the lack of reflection within Gnome of its role in the failure of desktop Linux.

Dude, are you fucking serious? 4% and constantly growing is a failure?

It's some project made by volunteers in their free time, people who are still personally offended GNOME 2 era is gone are owed NOTHING.

Most notably it's insular design choices in Gnome 3, and the early shipment of that non-ready software, reducing Linux's share of the market from MacOS levels to a third of that.

What the fuck are you talking about? Serious question.

Today, yet another insular design choice by Gnome

Ah yes, because surely feature that is constant source of confusion to more people that can be counted is insulated from the user base. If we sticked to the desires of loud minorities, we would get nowhere.

@eseilt@mastodon.scot @vkc@linuxmom.net

They do have a history of breaking workflows for no good reason.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

whose lives it makes more difficult will complain.

Is clicking some button difficult?

@theodric@social.linux.pizza @vkc@linuxmom.net You're talking as if the desktop hurt you personally.

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world @vkc@linuxmom.net worth noting most of those people dont use GNOME

@bruce@darkmoon.social @vkc@linuxmom.net pro-tip: it's impossible to tell intentions of people over text. tone indicators are the way to go

@FinchHaven@sfba.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu the post took it out of context, and I agree its not great wording, but in the video he said that its not spicy, but illegal

@ebassi@mastodon.social but evil gnome kicked my cat

/j

@GerryT@mastodon.social @ebassi@mastodon.social

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/119#note_2644725

My 2¢ (as input for the design team, as someone who's not a designer)

If we assume the Linux desktop has 4% market share, and assume the highly improbable fact that all of those 4% know how to use middle click paste and prefer it over the alternative autoscrolling, that's still 96% of users that are used to environments where autoscrolling is available and middle click paste doesn't exist

So we should default middle click paste to off. However it should be a setting, since it has been a feature that I'm certain many of our users have ingrained into the workflows. I can pretty much guarantee that Red Hat will get support requests about this if we turn the setting off without an easy way to turn it back on

Having a UI for this setting also gives us a convenient place to explain how the feature works, so the user can learn about it naturally

@ebassi@mastodon.social It's basically universal human behaviour to make up stuff to be mad at. Wherever I look at, I always see this type of behaviour. Quite amazing, in a way.

@YaLTeR @ebassi so you're the one who still uses Ubuntu 16.04? /j