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Quite the opposite in fact, it’s to guarantee the maintenance of applications we already enjoyed and to steer their development in a direction that benefits multiple desktop environments. The goal of the X-Apps is not to reinvent the wheel.

For instance, Totem 3.18 was radically different than Totem 3.10 which shipped with Linux Mint 17, but Xplayer 1.0 (which was the default media player in Linux Mint 18) was exactly the same. Within Linux Mint, users didn’t need to adapt to X-Apps, because in many cases, they were very similar or exactly the same as the applications people were already using. To be backward-compatible (in order to work on as many distributions as possible).To provide the functionality users already enjoy (or enjoyed in the past for distributions which already lost some functionality).To work everywhere (to be generic, desktop-agnostic and distro-agnostic).To use traditional user interfaces (titlebars, menubars).

To use modern toolkits and technologies (GTK3 for HiDPI support, gsettings etc.).

The idea behind this project is to replace applications which no longer integrate properly outside of a particular environment (this is the case for a growing number of GNOME applications) and to give our desktop environments the same set of core applications, so that each change, each new feature being developed, each little improvement made in one of them will benefit not just one environment, but all of them. A project called “X-Apps” was started in 2016 to produce generic applications for traditional GTK desktop environments.