Sad news for fans of Gradience, the 3rd-party tool to customise the look of GTK4/libadwaita apps, as this weekend (June 29, 2024) the Github project page
In post on the Gradience Discord, the tool’s primary developer David Lapshin (daudix) explains: –
“Archiving the project […] will make it clear that Gradience is, well, unmaintained, and will prevent the issue tracker from being filled with duplicates asking when new release will be out/why nautilus sidebar is white.”
“And, if someone will want to maintain it one day, it can always be unarchived with a press of a button.”
@sag Let me guess, it’s because of that Python library they depended on that was also archived?
Looks like the maintainer has better things to do
Probably a better idea would be to leave it archived. Whoever wants to take over can fork it and prove themselves by showing their work.
The xz debacle has shown that there are risk involved in an established developer endorsing an unknown one.