Gnome: Introducing the CSD Initiative

Oh, FFS...

"Nobody liked our bold new creative strategy, but rather than admitting defeat, we're going to try to force it down everybody's throat by going upstream."

Gnome's application controlled UI looks like crap on other, less insane window managers, and it's been a consistent pain in the ass to make these applications behave nicely there. It's gotten bad enough that I've stopped using several "gnome owned" applications that I previously liked, such as gedit.

I hope non-gnome-affiliated package maintainers are confident enough to tell these clowns off.

> However, the sooner we start, the sooner we’ll live in an awesome CSD-only future.

What if I don't care for title bars, close, maximize and minimize buttons, because I'm using a tiling window manager, making them redundant wastes of screen real estate for things I can do with keyboard shortcuts?

Or, what if I do care for title bars, because I've been using say, Windows for N years, I've well-developed muscle memory and it's the only workflow I care for?

Also, what does "Native-looking close/maximize/minimize icons" look like? Would that be "native" Adwaita buttons in a KDE desktop? Or is GNOME going to be proposing a protocol for determining what native means depending on the environment?