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Are these like... Really things people want...? These seem either superfluous, or like they should just be standalone apps dedicated to this sort of functionality if people want them.
These are niche in their actual usefulness to a point of essentially being irrelevant. Of all the user experience polish, nice-to-have-features, and general system integration that this space needs, these kinda feel like proactive wastes of time...
The "AI" stuff is just fluff and isn't something that should be forced into everything. It isn't going anywhere but it would be nice if the tech would hurry up and settle.
Yeah, I agree. Like there are a million things to improve on in terms of user facing features, polish, and user experience, it just feels like such an empty, forced addition.
Give me hdr, high refresh rate support, expanded user system configuration options on gnome, better option organization on kde, increased focus on well thought out user experience design, more graphical ways of doing common tasks users might find themselves wanting to do, or any number of small polish and integration improvements, etc. Hell, even linux phone improvements!
It just feels like a lot of work for something that really isn't actually really valuable. Especially in a space where we have to triage and prioritize because we don't have the same resources.
Like all things with open source contribution, it's limited to things being produced based on what freelancers are interested in. This is a double edged sword, when you use a distribution you are using the end result of what its community interest is.
It's why there's fragmentation and lots of issues with any form of standardization of a UI language that can appeal to the average person because it's a mine field of complexity.