gnome was hijacked long ago to undermine linux adoption. I will not elaborate any further.

They killed galleon in Gnome 2, which was the best browser of its era, replacing it with epiphany. iBM was behind it. Ever since then there has been a lack of innovation on Linux with web browsers and since konqueror is a former shell of itself, killed file manager innovation as well

That explains why they made tray icons so hard to work with. It sounds like a conspiracy theory but I buy it