If anything, Gnome allowing customization in the first place is what I'm surprised by, not so much that they won't allow more (though the given reason is... questionable... at best)
My experience has been that even among the people invoking a concept of "straight pride", they aren't actually even claiming to be "oppressed" except satirically. The point is to stand on a (particular interpretation of) principle with regards to equal treatment.
As for the rationale, in my experience this sort of rhetoric is completely typical for Jordan Petridis (@alatiera).
> this sort of rhetoric is completely typical for Jordan Petridis (@alatiera)
That's too bad. Gnome was the best (or at least my preferred) "DE" for my Pinephone, and Linux Mobile in general. Having to work in the vicinity of this kind of argument sounds demoralizing at best.
Bazaar does not much at the moment beyond what Gnome Software or KDE's Discover is capable of. The features are nearly same: install/uninstall, search, flathub repo select and basic filtering options (free software, flathub only, maintained only). Plus this progress bar skin.
This whole fuss feels like it's on the same levels as that GIMP fork from few years ago which just took the code and replaced every occurrence of name because it's being considered by some people as an insult. Glimpse "project" is dead and honestly, I expect that this supposed game-changing "app store" here will be dead as well soon. Because people behind focus on a trivial issue instead of making their software actually standing off and rich on features.
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If they really consider this progress bar customization crucial for Bazaar to function then there should be a way to provide own texture from file, and colors from standard picker that would form either a gradient or bars. This is a really simple problem to solve - without shouting, calling names and pretending of being attacked.
There's nothing wrong with having LGBTQIA+ flags in your app to highlight marginalized groups. But to respond to a plea for extension of that list with "fuck you, Nazi Transphobe Sexist Scum" isn't the way to go.
The VAST majority of my LGBTQIA+ friends in health care agree. Your candle won't burn brighter if you blow out other candles. Adding more colors, adding more flags, adding more recognition, does not diminish the recognition of the original marginalized groups. If anything, it creates understanding, community, personhood, and normalizes LGBTQIA+ as not an outlier but one in a scary number of identities and groups that are being mistreated.
This is for people who are queer first, people second. This is for the loud minority of a minority.
<choices>
<choice value="accent-color"/>
<choice value="pride-rainbow-flag"/>
<choice value="lesbian-pride-flag"/>
<choice value="transgender-flag"/>
<choice value="nonbinary-flag"/>
<choice value="bisexual-flag"/>
<choice value="asexual-flag"/>
<choice value="pansexual-flag"/>
<choice value="aromantic-flag"/>
<choice value="genderfluid-flag"/>
<choice value="polysexual-flag"/>
<choice value="omnisexual-flag"/>
<choice value="aroace-flag"/>
<choice value="agender-flag"/>
<choice value="genderqueer-flag"/>
<choice value="intersex-flag"/>
<choice value="demigender-flag"/>
<choice value="biromantic-flag"/>
</choices>
ungreased0675•2mo ago