On Mon, Aug 11 2025, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote: > * Pyromania <pyroma...@disroot.org> [2025-08-10 17:54]: >> On Fri, Aug 08 2025, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>> > * Pyromania <pyroma...@disroot.org> [2025-08-08 12:35]: >> >> Many changes they are making in Gnome doesn't need any >> >> contribution; old, well tested and solid stable features just has >> >> been removed. Hundreds complained, blog posts writen, issues >> >> opened, people migrated to other DEs, forks suffered, apps broken, >> >> compatibility lost. But still Gnome is on the same course. >> > I can't follow the development. >> Me too; I don’t follow Gnome’s development, anymore. I may stumble >> at an article or news post talking about Gnome, sometimes, nothing >> more. However, I guess that Gnome’s course of direction is going to >> strongly effect GNU/Linux desktop. Particularly, GTK. > When I have particular proposal or bug report, then I do that. At the moment, I don’t use any of Gnome’s direct products; But in general, for any software product that I use, reporting bugs is the least of contribution I would expect of my self. > It may not be granted as such, as not every group of people perceives > it as important. I try my most so that I don’t use products which their makers don’t perceive things which I consider important, even as a matter. Sometimes it’s possible to do (because there are alternatives, like the current diversity of DEs), sometimes it’s not. […37 lines elided…] > I use Evince mostly, rather than XPDF, but when I need to quickly > capture some documents, then I have to use XPDF. I suggest Xournal++. I don’t know if it has the feature you want, but it’s the program I provide for the systems I maintain; I know that it misses some features (I guess signing PDFs is one of them), but I still didn’t face a feature my users would expect from their PDF reader and that feature is not provided by Xournal++. Before Xournal++, It was XPDF and Xreader. > And if maintainer doesn't find it suitable or cannot understand why is > it useful, then I simply move on to my next task. > The ownership of PDF reader named Evince isn't in my hands. I can > either offer some payment, donation or ask for it, and if not granted, > there is nobody to blame. I am thankful that it exists. I’m thankful for any free software program that exist. Even if I don’t use it, even if I don’t use it indirectly. I’m more grateful for the ones that I use. I’m also much less grateful for programs that put their objective against user’s convenience and freedom. You know? Some pieces of software are just legally free/libre; by license, but not by other aspects. > This attitude reflects a sense of gratitude combined with acceptance > of the situation as it stands without entitlement—a mindset often > referred to as "grateful pragmatism" or simply being appreciative. Agree. -- English is not my native/mother language. I can read and understand English well, but I have problems expressing my thoughts in it. Please, bear with me. Sincerely, Pyromania. PGP fingerprint = 2B24 291E 0637 4D2E 0D14 9EFC D7B3 10D4 5C9D 5892 () ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
