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  • BTW there was a nice idea behind the only close button in early GNOME 3. Apps were intended to save the state on exit, so one doesn’t need to minimize windows, they can close it and reopen at any time and see the exact content of a window. But GNOME completely has failed to deliver that idea.

    What makes things worse, there was no clear way to keep apps on the background when the main window is closed. It was seemed as antifeature. But that was a different world where weren’t so much of internet service applications running on the background 24h a day. Now there is a background portal but with quite minimal support in the DE.




  • There are more idealistic people in the community that technical. It is hard to discus technical blockchain things: consensus, state, contracts, zkp and how those could be useful for the further improvements of the protocol and the ecosystem. The development is slow as the result with a lack of community vision about the future of the protocol. The situation is slowly changes as the coin gains more popularity.




  • Flatpak was started by RH employee but has been developed with significant community effort.

    Flatpak uses ostree, which was originally created in GNOME for GNOME OS. And GNOME has contributors not only from RH but form Endless, Collabora, Purism and others.

    Flatpak can work with OCI remotes, this is what RH more interested in. And Flathub uses only ostree. OCI remotes are used in Fedora Flatpaks repacked from fedora packages with the runtime based on fedora. But who use it anyway.

    Flathub itself is independent community effort. It uses org.freedesktop.Platform based runtimes which are not based on any distro.

    XDG Portals are shaped by Flathub maintainers and applications developers where RH also doesn’t play significant role.






  • The bigger part of the fediverse doesn’t like anything related to crypto and especially NFT and web3. As a social network and a subculture the fediverse will have some effect on adoption of these ideas but the result is unclear.

    I’d say that crypto and fediverse have a little intersection and mostly exist in the different echo-chambers as for now.