About a year ago I wrote a blog post explaining how the horrible development practices of people in the GNOME project lead to a bug in vte that was an

The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers

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About a year ago I wrote a blog post explaining how the horrible development practices of people in the GNOME project lead to a bug in vte that was annoying me, even though I don’t use GNOME: GNOME’s horrid coding practices.

The post is highly technical, but if you manage to go through it, it’s clear they made a mistake, and they refused to acknowledge their mistake, even though several users complained about the bug for years (not just me).

But the real problem is not that they refused to fix the bug, it’s that I provided them with a perfectly valid fix, and they refused to even look into the merit of it, only because of their ego.

Today there’s an update: they came up with a fix of their own. However, the irony is that their fix is an obfuscated and poorer version of my own fix.

What’s the problem then? Many are going to presume this is some kind of “I told you so” retribution to elevate my ego. No, the problem is that my fix was available three years ago. All they managed to accomplish by ignoring and censoring me, is hurt their own users.

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