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Developers adopting mobile toolkits (libadwaita) for desktop apps are degrading the Linux experience

- less information density

- wasted space

- phone tier UX

- optimized for touch screens

- lacks depth

Lazy convergence that ignores how people actually use desktops

I haven't used the app yet, but from the screenshots it appears to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines [1].

You may disagree with said guidelines, of course, but the author can't reasonably be criticised for following the platform standards.

[1]: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/

Try it please. This feels alright on GNOME in terms of visual density.

The rest is subjective. But Adwaita / Gnome is what's on my machine, so I follow their design principles.

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