flere-imsaho 🇺🇦

any #redhat apologists coming forward to defend this? what's the current spin from the prime evangelists of the red felt headgear?

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fuck ibmhttps://www.hadess.net/2023/08/new-responsibilities.htmlThis means that, in the medium-term at least, all those GNOME projects will go without a maintainer, reviewer, or triager:gnome-bluet...

Aug 15, 2023 at 3:48pmWeb
Show threadFoolishOwlAug 15, 2023
@mawhrin I'm a little bit concerned about how brittle the infrastructure for FOSS actually is, how much it depends on table scraps from corporations.
Show threadPaul WalkerAug 15, 2023
@foolishowl @mawhrin Yeah, that seems to have crept up and become the case for a lot of the desktop-like software. I guess maybe UI polish and dealing with end users isn’t fun enough that many people will do it unpaid. :/
Show threadFoolishOwlAug 15, 2023
@arafel @mawhrin I've seen a couple of discussions lately about how Linux distros have basically abandoned accessibility tools, and in practice only Windows remains usable. (And that, probably only through inertia.)
Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Aug 15, 2023
@foolishowl @arafel accessibility suffers the most from such corporate abandonement.
Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Aug 15, 2023
@foolishowl @arafel …it seems that at least there's a more current work being done for gtk4.
Evolving accessibility – GTK Development Blog

Show threadFoolishOwlAug 15, 2023
@mawhrin @arafel That's promising. Worth noting, though, that this apparently depends on one developer working at Red Hat.
Show threadPaul WalkerAug 15, 2023

@foolishowl @mawhrin I have to confess that Microsoft now seem some way from Microsoft of the past. I mean, the whole “corporation not actually on your side” still applies, but they do seem to actually *try* to do things properly now.

Long-winded way to say I suspect accessibility in windows isn’t an accident.

Show threadFoolishOwlAug 15, 2023
@arafel @mawhrin You're likely right; it would not surprise me at all if there are people within Microsoft who've struggled to keep accessibility a priority.
Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Aug 15, 2023
@arafel @foolishowl desktop infrastructure is a complex environment with many interdependent moving parts, and people tend to shout at you as a way to communicate.
Show threadKhae ThanoAug 15, 2023
@mawhrin I don't know why, but I'm not surprised.