Really impressive work from the Pop!_OS team. They broke away from GNOME and decided to build their own DE, now it’s finally here
I remember this goal to change the window management to be more like a tiling WM (similar to Niri) that seems to have faded away. I recently moved from GNOME to KDE, one reason being KDE adopting Wayland protocols quicker and constant performance issues with GNOME.
Are you talking about this article?
After Ubuntu Unity, XCFE became my desktop, for the remaining netbook lifetime.
And I used to deal with Gtkmm back in 2000's, when GNOME still had a good architecture.