@clairie@mastodon.social No worries ! I don’t even think they were actively discriminatory either, it’s just a result of « Gnome devs wrote guidelines » resulting in inherently biased stuff.
Nothing harmful, and they even asked devs for feedback, so it’s all good !

@clairie@mastodon.social Oh yeah, and I was just reporting on the fact that multiple developers complained about this. I don’t have strong feelings on the issue personally, it’s just a banner.

I just think it’s weird to enforce icons styles in the App Store for « Linux ». Not up to them to say what’s good or not :)

@clairie@mastodon.social Not too much or too little detail in the icon (subjective and shouldn’t be up to flathub), no baked in shadows in icons, « in line with contemporary styles », not allowing explained screenshots with text or information around the app window (even Apple allows this)… Forcing screenshots to have rounded corners as well?

I totally want more streamlining, but this is de facto excluding so many current apps that would have to change their icon just to be on flathub…

@clairie Oh I do want guidelines and standards, but the guidelines on icons are too much

@clairie I didn’t “rant” about it…

Look it up, it’s well documented. Basically, flathub guidelines meant that something like Okular and many other apps from KDE (and other desktops) could never be featured, because their icons are too “realistic”.
Gnome icons aren’t skeuomorphic at all, they’re flat, simple colored, and don’t look real at all, compared to breeze app icons.

As an example, even people working on Flathub remarked that thyis was an issue: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/app-developer-feedback-about-quality-guidelines/8037

@danielcasanueva@mastodon.social yeah, YT recommendations have dropped off a cliff in 2024

@gregortactac@toot.si @Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz Fun fact: I ramble just as much in real life, must be a French thing!

@Arcticulate@toot.community No, the YT video says 600K dollars, not euros :)

@Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz Oh yeah, I ramble quite a lot

And here is the audio podcast:

https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/flathub-separates-from-gnome-arch-gets-500k-firefox-drops-do-not-track

@V0ldek @Jayjader At some point, I worked on a real estate website. We wanted to add little pages describing all the various neighborhoods in major cities, and contracted actual humans to do so, people who lived in said neighborhoods.

Reviewing their work, rewriting parts of it, and fixing mistakes was excruciating, I can’t even imagine trying to do that with the insipid writings of an AI that doesn’t understand the context or the purpose of what is asked of it…

@krolden @vort3 Libreoffice has like 6 different interfaces that you can pick from at startup, including one that is licmicking Office’s UI.

It also auto detects dark mode and auto sets icons to be the right theme, so, that criticism seems dated to me :)

@haui_lemmy @helenslunch The EU generally has the right idea but is often pretty bad at writing « ironclad » laws. I’m pretty sure most of the people writing these texts have very little experience in tech, and they tend to leave gaping holes that big tech companies are quick to exploit.

Still, in general, they’re doing a solid job at curbing the power and abuses of these companies. It just takes longer than it should to patch the holes!