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Other players as well: https://github.com/helloSystem/hello

Are you suggesting they should have chosen Wayland? I think they have a good argument against it: "Wayland: Under development since a long time, it offers no clear advantage over Xorg while it makes things more complicated (e.g, breaks screen recording) --> Use Xorg instead, or (maybe even better) no X server at all but pure framebuffer (like *ELEC does for media centers). Also see https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d... " https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelc...

I am very attracted to this idea. I want a clean desktop daily driver that prioritizes UX. I love many of the UX-focused priorities, but a much larger % of their priorities such as Linux vs FreeBSD aren't high for me and don't seem end-user focused. An interesting idea I had never thought to question was considering "App Stores" as package managers. "Package managers for end-user applications: Those are aimed at "managing the system", whereas everything that is to be managed on our system can be managed in the file manager and/or other GUI elements. --> Use package managers to produce a system image, which is considered immutable for the end user (like on almost every embedded system/software appliance)" https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelc... Good food for thought. Elsewhere they criticize App Stores for their com

> Custom Actions > It is now possible to arrange custom actions in cascading submenus. Just enter the same submenu name for a custom action in order to place it into the same menu. If you require multiple menu levels, you can achieve that by using `/` in the path of the 'Submenu' entry. In 2012 KDE AppMenu Runner was presented as a "plugin which allows to browse, search and select the menubar of the active application".[0] In 2019 I requested to somehow implement a feature, similar to Blender's "Menu Search"/"Operator Search"[1], into Olive Video Editor.[2] After resulted0 "Action Search" was implemented into Olive Video Editor (`/`) shortcut, its code was reused for "Action Search" in Scribus (`Ctrl+/`) and then converted into Qt5-plugin.[3,4] Year later, this Qt5-plugin code reused in for implementing global "Action Search" in helloSys

You might like helloSystem: https://github.com/helloSystem/hello

If you, like me, was wondering what this is, this bit from https://hellosystem.github.io/docs might be helpful: > helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac. FreeBSD is used as the core operating system. Please refer to https://github.com/helloSystem/hello if you would like to learn more about the ideas and principles behind hello.

So you ripped off helloSystem, basically. https://github.com/helloSystem/hello Why?

I had to scroll back a long ways for this, but you might want to keep an eye on helloSystem[1]. While they don't seem to be super polished yet, their "MacOS Dream Clone" concept is something you might me amenable to. >GNOME generally is rather odd, even if it's one of the more polished options. It strikes me more as a somewhat-desktop-adapted iOS than it does macOS. That's because Gnome has to fulfill different responsibilities as a toolkit. It has to accommodate for touch-enabled devices, which pads out the UI quite a bit. It takes some getting used to, but I think I'm finally quite into it. It does a nice job of maximizing the actionable area of your window without sacrificing usability, uniformity or screen space. Compared to Big Sur's design language, the Gnome devs are already quite pretty far ahead of the game in my opinion. Gnome 4

There's also one for BSD: https://github.com/helloSystem/hello

> Why FreeBSD? Thoughts on the underlying OS · Issue #37 · helloSystem/hello https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/37 More recently: FOSDEM 2021 - hello... again? https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/hello_bsd/ – expect a recording at https://www.youtube.com/user/fosdemtalks in due course.

> … copyright infringement on Apple's design? https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/38