serenity VS Chicago95

For a little more context, the most controversial of of the pronoun PR request was how Andreas Kling rejected it[0]:

This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics.

There is a "politics" section to the contributing guidelines [1], but this particular change doesn't appear to be covered by them.

[0]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814#issuecommen...

[1]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/CONTRIBUT...

We could argue about the history of hacker culture and its inclusivity, but it would most likely be just a series of proofless claims from both sides. I personally have never seen or heard of a person rejected from any hacker clique because of their sexual orientation. I've heard of a few having their contributions refused for trying to push political agenda [0], but then again it wasn't their identity that was refused, only the contributions related to advertising that identity.

I don't feel like the neo-queer-hacker culture you're discribing is particularly welcome to anyone who disagrees with them. I've heard of multiple instances of people calling for bans of people who said something in their private lives [1]. That is completely opposite of "inclusive". Inclusivity only matters when it includes people you disagree with.

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

Not anymore https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648

They merged a PR to replace males pronouns https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648

If I understand correctly, there was just a social media mob calling the project transphobic over the use of a couple of "he" in the documentation, that is uncalled for.

A user account called "anon" is "he"? It has no gender, it is a Linux user account. The correct word should actually be "it", which is exactly what the word got recently updated to: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648

If that's a concern for you, there are themes for GTK3 and GTK4 that replicate classic 3D widgets and remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively developed, but B00merang gives you a GTK+4 theme that's currently missing from Chicago95.) Works reasonably well as a daily-driver, giving you a similar look to the modern SerenityOS GUI on a standard Linux system. Even the modern GTK+4 "responsive" apps work as designed, with some non-critical graphical quirks.

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Chicago was the code name for the development version of the highly anticipated Windows95

Haven’t tried it, but there’s https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Might be looking for something closer to this: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

I bloody want my Linux and apps on it to look like this or something of this flavour. Most retro themes are poor quality shams (Chicago95[1] is the only good one, yet still not perfect). I feel like I would gladly pay serious money for a really high quality conversion of all the parts, including themes for all widget libraries and no quirks.

[1]https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Chicago95

Related: you can make Linux look like Windows 95 (98/2000/XP), icons and all: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

It works really well.