Gullible 97 points a year ago

If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.

Would have been better to frame it this way.

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kata1yst 26 points a year ago

I mean, the full letter seems like a lot more than that. There's complaints about 'branding', and 'identity', and 'intent', most of which strays away from supportability and into the realm of concerns about control.

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Gullible 16 points a year ago

That’s what I was saying, they would have been better off framing this as a support issue. Everything else they touched on was more than unnecessary

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kata1yst 8 points a year ago

My apologies, I misread your comment then.

The support concerns are definitely warranted in some cases.

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MachineFab812 12 points a year ago

That doesn't "generate publicity" in an asinine manner. Rejected.

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ArbitraryValue 4 points a year ago

Except that it would be like the meme where a guy shoots the app and then says "How could the app's developer have let this happen?"

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RushLana 21 points a year ago

Tired of people being "dont' make an open-source app then xD".

This letter has nothing against the hobyist that theme their system for fun and everything against distro that put their own stylesheet as default breaking something and leaving the maintenance burden to the app dev.

And before I hear "Word that differently then" I want people to remeber the main way you will see this is as a github badge and that other aproch have already been tried over the course of the last 15 last years. Hell I've been guilty of reporting an issue with an app because the ubuntu gtk2 stylesheet was breaking icons.

Sorry for the incoherent rambling.

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commie 13 points a year ago

can you link the letter?

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kn33 14 points a year ago

https://stopthemingmy.app/

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commie 4 points a year ago

I run Debian. does Debian fall afoul of this request? idk.

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Qwel 4 points a year ago

No, Debian never had a custom preinstalled theme afaik

I'm not aware of any distro who kept their custom themes after this letter was published. ZorinOS still has some theming, but it looks like they only slightly changed some colors (where the previous one was rather invasive)

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KSPAtlas 2 points a year ago

Linux mint?

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mat 12 points a year ago

Don't use open source or libre license then XD Or just tell people to back off

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sexy_peach 7 points a year ago

Lol