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>Enough spam for today. Locking the issue.

Locked as expected. But really? Well-written written arguments from users and developers is considered spam?

To the narcissist any criticism of anything they have done, believed, enjoyed or have been involved in is a personal attack, no matter how you phrase it. To you and I, we see a respectful conversation. In the view of the narcissist you might as well have been screaming personal insults at them.

When you see someone getting into a screaming match about why Playstation is better than XBox it may indicate narcissism. If the screamer had chosen the second best option, that would imply they aren't perfect and that isn't something a narcissist is able to process. The internet just allows for the XBox and Playstation selecting narcissists to find one another.

The worst bit IMO is that that promptly followed:

> I've created a new thread that hopefully is a bit more relevant. Continue the conversation here

> ['here' marked as duplicate of 'this' and closed]

Unfortunately GNOME development team has been more interested in hypothetical users than real users.

Oh, dear. Are they still chasing my grandmother? My grandmother has been dead for several years now, and my mom barely uses a laptop anymore, since she prefers her tablet.

Someone would have to really despise their grandmother if they install Linux on her desktop, doesn't matter which DE it is.

I guess some people out there do like moron-friendly UI and UX.

A granddad I think (he was at least old enough to be one) taught me that Ubuntu was a usable not too bad looking Gnome distro back in 2006 or so...

Of course in my opinion Ubuntu isn't the same now as then but on the other hand KDE Neon is now even better.

On the Gnome bug tracker? Yes.

But why, I don't understand. These conversations need to be had somewhere, why not in a bug tracker where developer said they won't fix it? There already is an argument not to fix it, why can't others support fixing it?

I don't think GP means it's good or that they agree with it. Just like 'oh yeah, that's to be expected there...'

Again, I don't understand why this is expected. I'm a software engineer and if someone said "closing this because principle! even though user wants it", I will most definitely support my position somewhere. Since this is a community project, why can't that place be public bugtracker instead of private emails?

I just mean that the other commenter's expecting it (I think) from experience, saying that that's normal there or that it doesn't come as a surprise to them. Again, not saying it's good and fine or that they think that.

It's not expected in general, it's the kind of thing I expect from Gnome, and specifically, on Gnome's bug tracker.

What's not to understand? Feature requests are closed if there are no plans to implement a certain feature. The developers are just being honest about their plans. Users wanting it or making arguments as to why they want it is irrelevant. Surely there have been times when you've said "no we're not going to implement that feature"?

Typically bug trackers are for tracking bugs; not having discussions about the direction of the project. In some open source projects feature requests in general are entirely off topic in the issue tracker (though I'm not sure if that's true for Gnome).

>Well-written written arguments from users and developers is considered spam?

Yes. The bug tracker is not a place to have an argument. The correct place for that would be a mailing list.

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