I appreciate your candor in sharing your reasons. I'd also like to make it
clear that I wasn't digging for any uncomfortable sharing of information.
That said, what makes an electron application (since we're avoiding web
browsers here, which I understand) significantly more distracting than an
IRC window? If you use the RocketChat compact theme + dark mode, is that
significantly more distracting that an IRC window? That said, would a
Matrix window be significantly more distracting than an IRC window as well?
So is your stance here that you aren't going to move away from IRC, or that
you need whatever the option is to be able to be stripped down to something
as bare bones as IRC? Or is that you only can tolerate one chat app being
open, and therefor whatever it is has to be universal?

If I remember correctly our conversation last month, you said you didn't
want a web browser open as it provided tabs to distractions. At which point
I mentioned the electron Flatpak (which contains no such tabs), but you
weren't having it.

Attached is an image of the compact mode + dark theme. Just for the record.

https://imgur.com/a/79rnzKc

(appologies to Christian who got this email twice)

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:59 PM Christian Hergert <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2/12/20 3:32 PM, Britt Yazel wrote:
> > Can you explain to me what the big issue with web clients are? I keep
> > hearing over and over again that developers don't want to use web
> > clients, either in browser or with Electron, but I don't recall ever
> > hearing a "why" in there.
>
> I'll repeat what I told you last month.
>
> I don't want a browser open when I work, yet I need to collaborate with
> other GNOME developers on code and platform issues. I keep Builder open,
> a terminal, and IRC. That's it.
>
> For those of our community with ADHD and similar neuro-divergence, this
> can be a necessity to get things done. The only way I get through my
> todo list is to reduce all possibilities for distraction.
>
> I suspect you wont get many people telling you that though, because to
> do so requires a level of emotional labor to share with the world their
> medical history.
>
> -- Christian
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