deadcream

That's the problem of most general-use languages out there, including "safe" ones like Java or Go. They all require manual synchronization for shared mutable state.

we ain't never gonna have the Year of the Linux Desktop

Yes, but at this point you can't even blame Microsoft for this. Maybe the issue lies elsewhere?

It's not even about waiting or patience. I'm not a teenager anymore, so I don't have as much to play games as I used to (and I have now other interests too). I have so many great PC games in my queue I literally won't have time to play them all until I die. The queue only gets longer with time. So what if I can't play some console exclusive? It's just one game in the long list of games I won't get to play and I have no problems with that.

They are trying to make money to stay afloat. Postmarketos is a community project so it's not comparable. And neither Purism nor Pine64 seem to be huge commercial successes just like Jolla, though they seem to be doing a bit better.

They have been owned by a Russian state-owned telecom corporation for a few years until recent events (Russia currently tries to push Sailfish OS fork as its "russian-made" mobile OS). Original Finnish management has split off to a new independent company with the same name last year, and this looks like their last ditch attempt to continue existing. I don't expect they will last much longer (the reason why they were bought by Russia in the first place was that Jolla failed as a business).

Qt 6 has been out for more than three years now.

Gconf was text though (well XML actually but not binary).

Well it could be that the application uses some Qt functionality that does nothing on Wayland, and the developer may not be aware of that. Though it could be challenging to fix this in a cross-platform way.

BTW those warnings about requestActivate should go away when those apps migrate to Qt 6.

You can report it to developers of an app which prints these warnings. It could be a bug where some functionality doesn't work as expected on Wayland.

It's the standard location for all apps (actually it can be overridden by environment variables and ~/.config is the default value). However like many things in the Linux world it's not enforced. Some apps (especially console utilities) don't respect it but most use it.

What exactly do you expect users to do when they see "WARNING: what you are doing is unsafe" message? Cause the only outcome I can think of is that they won't install themes at all.

There is a checkbox with a very confusing name in the task manager applet's settings that does just that. I can't remember its name just now (~~something about separated launchers~~. ~~It's "Combine into single button"~~. Nope, it's "Keep launchers separate" and it's indeed needs restart).