What are you doin' gnome!?

So one super cool thing about Linux is that you can make your system look like one thing. Have your favorite theme applied to the entire system. Ofc this should be a normal thing, not a Linux specific thing. It is an awesome way to make an operating system fun, but also functional.

Look at our new TROMjaro that we will release soon with a different theme that is more modern:

These are all different kinds of apps, and yet they all look the same. You know where the window buttons are and what they are (minimize, maximize, close). It is beautiful. I can change it to a light theme with two clicks:

We made sure that TROMjaro looks great and uniform with most apps.

And now here's the white sheep:

It does not respect the theme at all. It only has 1 button (close) and on the right side. If my theme has buttons on the left side, the white sheep don't care. This is the Touche app we use to setup the touchpad and touchscreen gestures, and recently they moved to the libadwaita library. This is something pushed by Gnome that says it will make the app developers' life easier in terms of creating apps for gnome. But that means app developers are enforcing 2 themes for all such apps. Light and Dark. And messing with the entire Linux ecosystem of theming and usability.

Here's a video about it ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=Pdx_MwcMtn…

Problem is it seems we can't do anything about it and more and more Gnome apps will implement it. We use a bunch of gnome apps for TROMjaro and we may be forced to replace them.

Gnome stop transforming Linux into MacOS or Windows. The beauty of Linux is the many distros, the variations, the themes, the user experience, the fact that you feel that OS is yours....

Such a sad and stupid move.

Let me say it again: the apps should respect the system. If my system says "I want this theme" then the apps should respect that. If my system says "I want 3 window buttons on the left side" then the apps should respect that. Else we end up with a zoo of different apps looking and behaving in different ways. Gnome already broke the global menus and the top bar of apps. Instead of us having uniformity and usability, we get MacOS or Windows- And for what!?

Now I understand it more when people complain about Gnome. Took me a while to get it...I am happy we moved TROMjaro from Gnome to XFCE. #tromlive