Hi Linux Lemmites. Recently finished up school and started working full time and kind of miss working on personal projects. I’m looking to try to make something in rust and try out gpui if I can figure it out or maybe egui. I also want to make something maybe even a handful of people would actually use as I find that motivating, so I ask what would actually be useful to you?
Edit: thank you all very much for the input, I think that maybe doing something akin to a “settings+” would be a fair target for me for a n initial project. If I make anything interesting I’ll make another post in this sub.
GNOME
It feels like it never quite decided on what it wanted to be. Extensions break with every update. There seems to be no long term plan with it.
Honestly, bring back unity.
Wow, I feel the absolute opposite. Of all the UXes I have ever used, Gnome feels the most like they have a vision they’re committed to.
Not everyone likes it, and I get it’s very different to the WinUX that most others have settled on, but they absolutely have a vision, and they execute on that vision.
Sort of.
When a new Gnome version comes out, Gnome’s default behaviour is to mark extensions as unsupported. But in reality unless you’re upgrading to the first Beta releases, you’re unlikely to run into that, as extension developers will have marked their extensions as compatible long before the new Gnome version has hit stable and distros start pushing it.
You can disable the check if you like, but hypothetically that could lead to issues (say, if Gnome radically changes the calendar applet, and then you force enable an extension that tweaks the old applet). Gnome, probably wisely, goes with the more stable option.
If you just use the stable branch, you’re unlikely to ever get broken extensions.
Gnome is like the t virus. Slowly trying to devour everything else and convert it to its side by force.
They don’t actually break for the most part, the extension usually needs to be updated to say gnome 49 instead of 48, or you select ignore version on the extension site
They haven’t caused major changes that actually make them break in a while.
In case they do make major changes, it makes sense to not ignore version on default especially since that also effects older addons.
Also say an addon still works but gets abandoned, if they can’t bother to update just the version, it’s for the best that someone else comes along and takes over seeign that no one is working on that extension anymore, if it just kept working without someone bothering to even update the version? eventually when Gnome did get a major change, it would have no one working on it. So I think it kinda helps keeps extensions developed even if they technically work with a version change.