thx for the screenshot. mine does appear correctly! (i'm on jerboa)

It's Fractal, a matrix client, not a webview: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal

No, I want it to utilize the space a little bit more, this wouldn't look good even on a 16:9 display. Which is a shame because when windowed it looks really good.

That would be ideal, IMO.

2560x1080 which is 21:9 full hd. Most programs don't really handle 21:9 displays, but many GTK apps are particularly bad at it

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I have no issue with the text size, I have an issue with enormous empty space around the text. It's fine if it's not perfect on a 21:9 display, but this wouldn't look good even on a 16:9 display.

I'm also fine with the text not taking up the entire width, I aggre that it's less readable. But I think the window (not the text, the window) could utilise the width better.

I say that the messages could be a little more spread out (i.e. my massages could be a little to the right while other's a little to the left) and just like the left sidepanel appears and disappears when the window is too thin, more sidebars could appear to the right when the window is very wide.

It was an effort by multiple Unix vendors to create a common desktop environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

Cool Desktop Environment 😎

I think what drove me to that decision was the cpufreq extension. It kept breaking with every update. I usually shrugged it off but it really irked me every time.

My last straw was when they changed the theming system to force the use of libadwaita and broke my customised theme and dark mode. I don’t do a lot of customisation in general but I have rigid preferences when it comes to how I want my system to look and behave. They broke it and that drove me to explore other solutions.

I tested KDE Plasma for a couple days and I managed to replicate my setup in like 4 hours—most of which I spent exploring new things that would be impossible to do in GNOME without modifying its code base—and the end result was an improved setup which was less clunky since I didn’t have to use as many extensions as I did with GNOME to begin with. It was bliss for me.

I ultimately decided to move on.

I've been forced onto a shit mac book with this stupid OS for the first time in my life and spend 90% of the tine interacting with it basically trying to work around how bad window management and many other things are. Hacks and custom apps and changing options to try to make sense of it. I'm in this hell hole for 2 months now. I still have no idea or feeling for how or when windows behave or if they even become maximized or not. I hate it all.

The worst offender is opening the system settings and it's a stupid window that can't be maximized in anyway whatsoever and just sits there looking like an horrendous thing being frustrating.

But after using it I've finally understood where so many bad decisions gnome for example is stealing their ideas from.

Ok but that's a skills issue on the part of the user, a PEBKAC. Not the fault of the environment.

I actually really like how macOS handled full screen apps, with the windows 8 style side by side and a simple gesture flipping between them like pages in a book.

Yeah I'm gonna disagree. I can't think of a "standard" app that doesn't full screen properly.

I'll have you notice that there's also a gigachad in the meme, not just Kirk

Did you even read my comment? This has nothing to do with personal preference. It's a matter of defending a shared commons from a hostile force. Sure, an individual gnome user can coexist with an individual kde user, like seriously who cares its just a DE. But as a community, users of other DEs, WMs and compositors can only "coexist" with the gnome project in the same way that a population of humans can "coexist" with the COVID-19 virus