It is understandable people are frustrated, I am frustrated, and joined several conversation regarding this problem. However, I don’t appreciate some of the rant from many users. This change is certainly out-of-touch, potentially due to them don’t quite foresee the amount of flatpak/kde users who are affected by this change.
But many complaints have been dangerously close to the line, if not over the line. Their quite month policy is reasonable IMO, developers need breaks, especially those with frequent interaction with the community. Love or hate electron (same apply to CEF), it seems clear to me, the work if these developers brings many wonderful apps into the linux world.
I personally don’t feel people, who are not paying or contributing the development of electron, have the right to demand free work from the electron developer.
I feel one of the hardship for Linux to catch on is the lack of commercial interest to make it usable for consumers.
If this problem happened on Windows and macOS, MS and Apple would just send an engineer to spend a week or a day to have it fixed. This change has been in electron for Month, and no one bother to fix it.
Same with bugs in chrome and libsecrate, which have been open for 4 freaking years… https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret/-/issues/49
It also took chrome half a decade to support text-input-v3: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40113488#comment1, which is added by a third party developer. And it still breaks KDE’s implementate https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492225 …