Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 15, 2023 9:01 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update by marcH
Parent article: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

> This is what always happens when you relying on volunteers a lot. Volunteers want to have "fun" and you can't blame them because no one pays them.

Volunteers also want some fame which means lots of other useful code to build upon and shine. Gnome is reaching the point where its platform has been completely diluted by years of half assed unfinished fad-of-the-day rewrites and its value proposition for new developpers is approaching zero.

Remember that if all started by reusing the GIMP UI toolkit and was supposed to fix and generalize it to make it easier to write many useful FLOSS apps. And now it has exhausted its potential to the point that just maintaining a simple stupid official image viewer is deemed to be hard.

Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 15, 2023 20:10 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

> And now it has exhausted its potential to the point that just maintaining a simple stupid official image viewer is deemed to be hard.

But if this all started life as a GIMP-based project, can't they just fork GIMP, rip out all of the editing functionality and, uh, call it a day? That doesn't sound hard to me. Is there some property of the GIMP codebase that makes it harder than it sounds?