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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

But also one can’t rewrite many many complex apps by themselves.

Well, ressources are limited. Especially the amount of stuff other people will do for free in their free time.

My point is it wouldn’t be an issue as much if there wasn’t as much fragmentation. If it was easy to write for both qt and gtk at once then people wouldn’t have to complain about one or the other all the time.

Specifically with this, I don't see the issue. Qt apps run fine under GNOME and vice versa.

But sometimes unification across the desktop is something some people want.

Yeah but these same people are not going to do anything about it.

In theory, it would be nice to get some solid public funding for making desktop apps more accessible. With our rapidly aging population in Japan or large parts of Europe, that would absolutely make sense. But I don't see the job offers for SW engineers to do that.

I don’t think you can just invalidate what I’m saying with the just go write it then.

Well, I get that you want that.

But who should do that? On whoms time? With which money? Or for free?

Even things like the real time Linux project, which is extremely relevant for industry (including defense) is not funded in any sensible way.

Myself, I am an expert in signal processing and renewable energy topics. It is extremely relevant for energetic independence of Europe, and climate protection. That's not funded either. What is funded instead are "audio sound design" for combustion engine cars (that is, artificial simulation of engine noise). And this is bad politics - not something FOSS developers can solve by putting in more work for free.

Now there are wishes that "open source developers" put more (free) work into software security. Who exactly should do that?

I think most desktop stuff like KDE is done by people in their free time. They already do great work, including in the domain of UI. The negativity you transpire is unwarranted. These people do A LOT.

These people have a life outside programning, other responsibilities, and other things to do. Complaining about them not doing even more work will not motivate them.