[crashdancer]

>This thread is full of people trying to share experiences that you seem to not allow, Gnome 2 themes working well (for them) being one of them.

The mistake you are making here is that someone not experiencing a bug does not invalidate the existence of that bug. You can be using a feature and it can be working okay for you but if it causes bad problems for lots of other people or causes maintenance issues then it will get the axe. This is not to disallow your experiences, but to say there are reasons the developers may not consider your experiences to be representative of a typical experience, or ones that are even worth acknowledging. Because ultimately the developers are the ones who have to listen to all the complaints from everybody and decide which ones are valid -- users can't and don't do that, if they did then they would be developers.

>Considering Mate and Cinnamon still exist and are healthy projects would indicate there's many developers who share this sentiment.

That doesn't indicate it though, Mate and Cinnamon don't use GTK2.

>Nobody maintains older versions of KDE, apart from a single distro using Trinity (KDE3).

But you just disproved your own assertion with an example! If there's one even example then that means a certain percentage of users aren't happy.

>I wasn't, and very few are, treating developers hostilely,

I can't agree with this, I have read several hostile comments in this thread accusing GNOME developers of "sabotage" and things like that. I apologize if you aren't doing that.

>is not our fault or responsibility.

I can't agree with this either, if you aren't even using GNOME but you continue to complain about it then that is completely your responsibility. At some point you have to accept responsibility for your own choices. If that means you have to pick up GTK2 and fork it then that's what you have to do. You can't fault GNOME for not doing that just to please MATE users or whatever it is, when those users would probably still be unhappy with modern GNOME anyway.

>nowhere did I write that Gnome2 was bug free.

But that seems to be exactly what you were suggesting in regards to themes? What am I missing here?

[brnt]

> What am I missing here?

You keep misrephrasing me and others. That's clearly not helping you understand. Or helping you not understand.

[crashdancer]

That's why I asked you some questions. If you don't answer my questions or clarify anything then there isn't any other way I can understand your point of view, sorry. You are the only one who can explain yourself.