To misquote Willy Brandt: There is no point in reaching the year of the Linux desktop at the price of it not being the Linux desktop anymore.

To be clear, I’m responding to the affirmation that delivering app changes without any QA is acceptable.

I’m not against open software or user customization, but this approach does not result in quality software. Distros should be working with application developers and not against them. Here you have a large group of Linux app developers undersigning a plea to stop breaking their software and all they get is scorn and dismissal.

More Elementary, less winamp-skin-distros.

> Here you have a large group of Linux app developers undersigning a plea to stop breaking their software and all they get is scorn and dismissal.

Their letter is titled "Please don't theme our apps", not "Please don't break our apps".

If that's really the reason, then I and (likely) the majority of other Linux users are completely fine with that.