• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    but not really a UX

    What else could it be if not UX. Not being able to setup a shortcut for the keyboard layout change without a bunch of bullshit hoops is an eXperience I have as a User.

    Any UI could be faulted for that then

    Yes, it’s a metric by which we measure the experience. Sometimes things should and could be easily customisable, and if they aren’t, it’s a fault of the UI.

    As for apps not written for it again, not something they have control over

    If they’re making a window manager, they need to consider apps that user might run with this window manager. If for example a browser doesn’t render half of the internet correctly because they added an unexpected rendering conventions, it’s a shit browser. Same could be said about desktop environment.
    Other DE expected to run apps, Gnome expects that you write your app with Gnome in mind, that’s a big difference.