I wonder why devs need to work on multiple different environments. I only have (user)experience with KDE and GNOME but what’s the difference between them?
- It’s not the default layout, you could ship another default version
- goals can be to maximize customizability (features) while minimizing ressources. Or the other way round. (Or simplicity)
- is it because devs like different frameworks (qt, gtk)? Or language?
I’m not sure if I like this answer. It basically boils down to, everyone wants to cook his own soup.
If you want to have it less customizable, you can build on the same fundament but don’t enable the functionality.
The issue might be that gtk and qt are so different from a low-level that it’s more work to try to fork it than it is to just make something else.
This isn’t an educated response btw, just throwing out ideas