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Yeah, stopthemingmy.app feels crazy to me to be coming from the open-source community.
This is a great explanation of what drove me away from Gnome into the loving arms of KDE. I used to be a Gnome 2 die hard. I don't like Gnome 3, but I'm still glad it exists because some of you guys do.
I need a certain level of customizability.
I first read this as…
Stop them in my app.
I did the same thing the other day when I saw "winedlloverrides" (for the program Wine if that helps).
Ok, just skimmed the page, but if I read it right, your apps are for screenshots, not people. That's a choice, but ok, I wasn't going to use them anyway, judging from the screenshots. May I suggest renaming the site pleasedontusemy.app, for clarity?
I expect more of this kind of nonsense as more and more people come to Linux.