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If you clicked through to the blog post linked in the article, you'd see more examples. https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-a...

>If it's a bug in the theme, the application developer is just not responsible for it.

And how many times would they have to tell the end user who opened an issue on their app's tracker that?

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> And how many times would they have to tell the end user who opened an issue on their app's tracker that?

I'm afraid there is no way around that issue with free software.

In this case the author is suggesting a way to avoid it, for distributions to not theme and introduce the bugs in the first place.

for distributions to not theme all third party applications by default, and for that to be a per-app user toggle.

> And how many times would they have to tell the end user who opened an issue on their app's tracker that?

There's a super clever life hack my wife used when working in e-commerce. She kept a text file with prepared replies to most common issues and questions, and used the OS's built-in copy-paste functionality to quickly responding to messages asking about the same thing. I hear this kind of functionality is even supported directly in desktop e-mail clients these days.

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