Comment by anonymousab

People don't make PRs because they've seen how difficult it is to get anything done with the GNOME project. So often is there a fix pr or patch that satisfies the code style and standards, but gets rejected despite user demand because, well, the maintainers don't want that thing fixed or changed. Or they do, but they want to make some sort of point by rejecting a change at that time.

GNOME is one of the weirder and more difficult projects for a stranger to contribute to if your change does not fit into a very narrow and specific set of current priorities (unknown to the outside contributor, so good luck!). It is another world-of-wontfix poster child projects and I don't begrudge anyone who doesn't want to go through the hassle compared to most other open source projects they can spend their time on.

Eventually, you're left with just pointing out how ridiculous something is with GNOME and moving on. You're just not going to be able to get a fix merged regardless of merit, quality or tact. It isn't worth the pain.