You mean like most major platforms do from time to time, even FOSS ones like Gnome?
With most things, if you want to completely avoid eventual, inevitable UI changes, you need to just never upgrade.
With most things, if you want to completely avoid eventual, inevitable UI changes, you need to just never upgrade.
UI changes in general are something to expect, but if you're just going to disregard user feedback then you can't claim to respect users.
Personally every other release they remove features I like and make arbitrary UI changes. The only reason I'm still complaining and not using something else is because I don't like the alternatives either.
I was just pointing out that the grandparent was conflating their opinion being ignored with all users' opinions being ignored
The proper solution to this would be to have different modes if this is so critical. To their credit they did put in a "compact" mode after beta, but this is explicitly "unsupported" and even then still has more padding than "large" mode in the old UI.
> and even then still has more padding than "large" mode in the old UI.
This is objectively false. Your hyperbole undermines your argument.
Know what I can't do on any of my machines? Touch the screen.
Decreased UI density doesn't just help touchscreens.
There's Vivaldi, and it too uses HTML for its interface, but the team doesn't seem to care about UI performance at all.
> There's Vivaldi, and it too uses HTML for its interface, but the team doesn't seem to care about UI performance at all.
Thanks to that, Vivaldi also actively supports CSS tweaks like Firefox. They do indeed care about UI performance and work towards fixing it... The 3.7 update really improved its UI responsiveness. Still, it feels slower than Chrome/Brave/Firefox.
This sounds like a counter-argument. What the Gnome team did (during the 2->3 transition) was a huge overhaul while completely ignoring the habits and wishes of their users. I understand they had to rewrite the old code, that's perfect. I also understand they wanted to "refresh the UI" at the same time. But you can't just change everything and think your users will be happy. If you act against the wishes of your users, who do you write your software for? It simply made no sense and that's why people turned to MATE.
Not sure what your argument is supposed to be but not everyone liked GNOME's new UI. That's why you've gotten forks such as MATE.