GNOME users, I have some questions for you! This won’t single-handedly drive the design of GNOME (I’m not that influential… yet 😉 ), but anecdata is always nice to help unstick design discussions or just gather insights.

(Polls will follow posts as I can’t share an image and a poll, sadly.)

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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the Files app? Note this is NOT the same as the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app.

(Answer in the following poll.)

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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the Files app? Note this is NOT the same as the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app.

(See previous post for a screenshot, reply for context.)

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Yes, frequently
22%
Occasionally
22.7%
Rarely
24%
Never
31.4%
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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app? Note this is NOT the same as when browsing in the Files app.

(Answer in the following poll.)

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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Recent” view in the file chooser, e.g. when opening a file in an app? Note this is NOT the same as when browsing in the Files app.

(See previous post for a screenshot, reply for context.)

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Yes, frequently
43.6%
Occasionally
26.8%
Rarely
14.3%
Never
15.3%
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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Starred” view in the Files app?

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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Starred” view in the Files app?

(See previous post for a screenshot, reply for context.)

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Yes, frequently
7.5%
Occasionally
12.9%
Rarely
16%
Never
63.6%
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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Large Text” option in Settings → Accessibility → Seeing?

Alternatively, do you set a different font scaling factor somewhere else, e.g. in Tweaks?

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If you use GNOME, do you use the “Large Text” option in Settings → Accessibility → Seeing?

Alternatively, do you set a different font scaling factor somewhere else, e.g. in Tweaks?

(See previous post for screenshots, reply for context.)

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Yes, “Large Text” in Settings
8.9%
Yes, larger font scaling set somewhere else
14.7%
Yes, smaller font scaling set somewhere else
7.3%
No, no change to text/font size
69.1%
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If you use GNOME, do you use “Focus on Hover” or “focus follows mouse” behavior in GNOME?

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If you use GNOME, do you use “Focus on Hover” (also known as “focus follows mouse”) behavior in GNOME?

(See previous post for a screenshot, reply for context.)

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Yes
12.8%
No
79.1%
Not sure
8.1%
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If you use GNOME, do you use startup/auto-starting apps, e.g. apps that launch when you log in?

(Feel free to reply for context/nuance!)

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Yes, for apps running in the background
41.9%
Yes, for apps that open a window when starting
4.7%
Yes, for a mix of background and windowed apps
18.1%
No
35.3%
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If you use GNOME, do you use Tweaks for one of these settings, and/or something else?

• Text size/font scaling
• Window focus behavior
• Startup/auto-starting apps

(Sorry this is worded kind of awkwardly… Feel free to reply for context/nuance!)

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Yes, ONLY for one or more of the above
10.9%
Yes, for one or more of the above, plus more
39.3%
I use Tweaks, but not for the above
26.1%
No, I don’t use Tweaks
23.8%
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@cassidy The biggest reason i use tweaks as others have mentioned is to enable the extra window buttons "Minimise and Maximise". However i also use it to change the GTK3 Theme to Adwaita dark (personally i don't know why this isn't changed when going from light to dark in the appearance settings).

Love seeing the ongoing discussions from the Gnome team! Thank you!

@tsoulard More than anything 'cause the idea is to respect what the apps really support, rather than forcing a theme on them and several ending up half broken

@nahuel That's fair but my understanding that with the default GTK3 themes is they shouldn't cause any issues with theming. As it is "just" a dark theme.

Although i suppose it could cause other issues with app styling i think for me right now my concern is dark mode isn't really "dark mode" in the same way it could be with just a switch to the default GTK3 theme but I'm not aware of the entire picture!

@tsoulard Sure, but then you have programs like MySQL Workbench that make use of GTK 3's foreign drawing to draw parts of their interface "respecting" the user's GTK theme.

After applying any dark theme, you end up with half app in light theme, and half app in dark theme, and even with dark on dark cases

@tsoulard If the app really supports dark mode, let it implement support for the color scheme standard and that's it.