GNOME has been heading in the direction of “these apps will not run elsewhere without GNOME, and will have a very particular, hard to modify look and feel” for quite some time at this point, so they’re at least as bad.
That’s largely why the Linux Mint team have been forking a lot of GNOME apps into their X-Apps project, so that in theory, those apps will continue to run anywhere, and look somewhat OK, regardless of desktop environment.
In hindsight, their choice of the letter X has aged rather poorly (any association to X11 was tenuous even at the outset, and then there’s the whole Twitter thing), but the project is still a noble one.
GNOME has been heading in the direction of “these apps will not run elsewhere without GNOME, and will have a very particular, hard to modify look and feel” for quite some time at this point, so they’re at least as bad.
That’s largely why the Linux Mint team have been forking a lot of GNOME apps into their X-Apps project, so that in theory, those apps will continue to run anywhere, and look somewhat OK, regardless of desktop environment.
In hindsight, their choice of the letter X has aged rather poorly (any association to X11 was tenuous even at the outset, and then there’s the whole Twitter thing), but the project is still a noble one.