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Not sure if this is also true for KDE.

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[–] gens@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Uhmm.. It was always possible to make an "app" that works on all linuxes the same.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

There was always a need for a specific system dependency like for the file picker. There was no universal API that uses a system provided way to have a file picker. It had to be hacked together by adding dependencies to the app and everything that comes with this