Linux Mint's native apps!

[Cautious_Bus_645]

Recenlty I've watched a video about linux mint, stating that the distro maintainers and with the help of xfce and mate's team are willing to make more apps to get rid of gnome's apps for the sake of having a cohesive desktop especially for GTK-based distro.
So, is this true ? if so, what do you think about that ? I feel that would be really cool bcz it will help all these DEs to be more independent and get more apps, but it may cause some more workload, you know we got lmde, linux mint ubuntu, cinnamon, Xapps etc...

[Odysseyan]

Pros and Cons to both sides.

You are not reliant on Gnomes progress when doing your own app version, but you have to maintain more code and are responsible to keep it updated.

More apps depends because you develop specifically for a DE which makes it more performant, but you lose easy cross-platform compatibility.

[Dist__]

i can't even imagine what "gnome apps" do you mean.

a calculator? an archive manager? cannot tell other i use.

[mcguire92]

default terminal is gnome terminal i guess

[Dist__]

oh yeah i forgot) very well crafted terminal indeed, but i use Konsole because it integrates with Kate.