linux is still about choice. . It used to be. Practical choices have been dwindling for a long time, replaced by naive "newness" that only works on some hardware or for some users. In
Patrick Shanahan composed on 2017-06-18 10:11 (UTC-0400): . plasma, it remains impossible (limited by QT5) to select a bold font[3], or the iso yyyy-mm-dd date format[4], or, if using the wrong hardware, to avoid segfaulting and crashing[5]. Most recently, Firefox started defaulting to building with the intentionally broken interop GTK3+[1]. Wolfgang's workaround needed by non-Gnome users will only last until mozilla.org removes the capability to build with GTK2.[2] [1] e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269274 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278282 [3] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-57736 [4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982 [5] e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380008 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org