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0 pointscycloptic5y ago0 comments

I am sorry if I'm being pushy, it just gets extremely tiring to see all the same type of comments for years on places like here and on /r/linux. You don't have to listen to me if you don't want, it's just my humble plea.

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traverseda5y ago· 2 in thread

This seems like an obvious response to gnome's poor behavior in the open-source ecosystem, they've been been burning good will among a large group of developers for a long time now. I think the solution to that problem isn't to ask people nicely to stop being pissed off, it's to fix the underlying problems/attitudes.

cyclopticOP5y ago

I am not saying don't be pissed off, I am saying please channel that energy to help to fix the underlying problems/attitudes. I can give suggestions on how to do this, if you're interested to hear it, so we can maybe have a chance to finally get some issues fixed. Beating the same dead horse going on years now is just not going to help this, regardless of what your perceptions of certain developer's attitudes are. If complaining about lost goodwill was ever a substitute for being persuasive and getting things done and taking initiative to restore the goodwill, it would have worked years ago, and we wouldn't be here talking about this now.

And just to be clear, harassing developers who have said "no I don't want to work on feature XYZ" is never acceptable and never has good results. If somebody says no and is just not interested, we leave them alone and we find someone else who does want to work on that feature.

traverseda5y ago

Alright, I want this type-ahead feature. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/244

Not having type-ahead, instead using gnome's search, makes GTK apps really annoying for me. Right now I have a solution that involves patching, but presuming that my ultimate goal is just that one concessions, just have a flag buried somewhere that would enable type-ahead instead of search, how do you suggest I get that done?

I think that would go a long way towards demonstrating that gnome can be reasoned with, is worth even approaching or talking to.

Could we hire a developer? Set up crowdfunding? Can someone give me a quote and I can see what resources I can bring to bear on the problem?

I'd be open to other suggestions on how to channel that energy productively, but I really think if they can't compromise on that one feature that's important to a bunch of people then they're probably not going to be worth dealing with. Feel free to send me an email, at gmail.

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