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My impression is the opposite: random users demanding that some devs spend their time on a tricky corner issue and getting angry about it. After reading their comments, I'd be very hard pressed to motivate myself to work on it.

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Well one person actually provided a solution, but then one of the maintainers just dismissed it because it was on Github, then locked the issue.

It seemed unclear that the patch addressed all the issues raised in the ticket, and looking at random patches still requires dev time. It is a different story when someone else actively works on getting it upstreamed and working on resolving any issues. It's about who volunteers to do the hard work.

Given that no one stepped up to do it yet and random users chimed in with aggressive and/or unhelpful noise, locking the issue was adequate.

I find it concerning how much abuse GNOME devs get, and I can completely understand that they respond like this.

Uh, as far as I can see, all the hard work is done, and has been merged into other forks. The Gnome devs just ideologically disagree. The whole ticket is a perfect example of “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”.

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