#Gnome - il #Desktop#Environment per #Linux - offre già oggi un'esperienza utente molto diversa da quelle tradizionali (per intenderci quelle di #windows, #macOS, #cinnamon, #kde ), e personalmente ritengo che sia il desktop "come dovrebbe essere": elegante, pulito, personalizzabile, efficiente
Ora gli sviluppatori di Gnome stanno riflettendo sulle alternative
Forget about #GUI, #TUI, etc interfaces. There is a #Doom interface for #sysadmin tools like ps, renice and kill. In #psdoom you actually kill processes with a gun.
I had been primarily using calckey.social the past while, (and some of the extra features their software adds are great) but they've been having frequent stability /usability issues that were making it hard to use, and Roni said I could set up here. I have nothing against the Firefish devs / admins on a personal level or anything, they seem quite nice from the bits we've interacted.
I'm also @Hawkwinter - but I'm mostly trying to stick to using that for art-related stuff.
I do 3d character stuff, 2d graphic design and cartography stuff. A bit of 2d character art. Tech/it stuff. Programming. Working on a Visual Novel in Ren'py. I'd like to figure out how to make VRChat and VTuber avatars.
Not currently accepting commissions, but I would probably like to in the future.
I like TTRPGs? Particularly GURPS, & heavily homebrewed D&D3.x with Eclipse. Also Rolemaster 4e. Played other stuff over the years but those ones are my favorites.
For entertainment, I like Wuxia, and Xianxia, and the Forgotten Realms, and Tolkien.
I'm interested in sustainable longterm architecture (to last centuries, not decades), science and tech, passive heating and cooling systems, and high-efficiency masonry woodstoves. 'Fancy-offgrid'. Regenerative agriculture and watershed management is neat too.
I occasionally read some philosophy. Nietzsche has a few neat ideas on individual self improvement, but the Tao te Ching has neat ideas on other stuff, like a few ideas on how a functional society would work. I'm not going to pretend to be a well-read philosophy student though.
In addition to regular social-media-ing, Gamedev-type stuff might get posted from here sometimes too? I'm really not sure.
Anyway, here's some misc examples of my work in different mediums / styles. The custom in-game menu screenshot is a WIP. I've been doing a good bit of reprogramming and extending things under the hood.
So! I have Ubuntu with Gnome installed. Immediately I have an issue, that I would probably only be able to describe by showing. Basically, what happens is that in a lot of apps, Gnome Settings mainly, Orca kind of explodes and acts like what NVDA acts like if it loses it's keyboard hook. This is a problem because I'm trying to pair a bluetooth keyboard, but I can't flat review the dialog to read the code or anything like that. Annoyingly, it reads everything else in the dialog except for that.
@Bryn That's GNOME 42.something or 43? Yah, that control center and orca do not play well. I talked about this yesterday, and don't know a work-around. For this reason and others, I am running Debian (trixie) on my Think Penguin machine. Have you considered Ubuntu Mate, instead of GNOME? #GNU#Linux#GUI#Accessibility
Tuba jest spoko - zostaje ze mną. Jedyny mały zgrzyt, to odświeżanie osi czasu na widoku głównym; przy kliknięciu strzałki w górę, następuje 5-8 sekundowy "zawias", zero płynności.
Poza tym nie mam zastrzeżeń - solidny klient na desktop! Polecam!
After installing PyQt with pip in a GNOME Wayland session, my application doesn't share my system theme.
This problem doesn't exist if I use PyQt from the distribution's repository. However, this also makes it difficult to use virtual environments for my applications.
Does anyone know why this happens? It seems to be specific to GNOME as I didn't have an issue like this before.
It could be possible that it is just set not to. Maybe there is a default setting or initialization. I would check if you could supply it.
Also, I've only used this in a #Windows environment, so maybe it doesn't work in the way you are running it. Just build it as an executable and see if it works then?
CBI Image of the Day. It is 1984 & the Apple MacIntosh quickly stood out for its relative, small form factor, GUI, and ease of use--garnering substantial adoption in businesses, like this NYC office, schools, and homes.
The cityscape and office setting stand in contrast to the computer lib myth (more than a little irony to revolution myths presented in ultra-expensive Superbowl ads)
Gnome c'était mieux avant (enfin...pour les inconditionnels de la GUI)
Pour passer toutes les apps GTK en thème dark...
Avant : un bouton switch dans une GUI d'ajustement de préférence
Now : gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita-dark'
...
Bisous les débutant.e.s qui ne parlent pas CLI !
@RapidWeaver is on sale today in the Indie Apps Sale. Despite the “weaver” name it’s really much more of a strict theme-based “static site generator” with a nice Mac GUI, than a freeform #WebDesign tool.
Which is actually just the kind of thing I’m looking for!
I’m going to try redesigning my hand-coded #Neocities site https://appletalk.neocities.org because like we learned in the 90s, it’s really a pain to edit the navigation menu on every single page when you add some new content.
I would love to start developing for smartphones, creating a proper #emacs client totally reimagined for the smartphone is long overdue and a project I could really sink my teeth into. You know the popup keyboard on your phone? You think Steve Jobs invented that? No he didnt, Richard Stallman did, it's called a minibuffer. Emacs was doing all this stuff in the 80s, and way better, even.
But I can't help but hate all the frameworks surrounding mobile development, ie React Native, Swift, Flutter etc, but also from my experience as a user, the apps I've tried that were made with alternative #fp frameworks like #LambdaNative, which had to downsample and skew the resolution to fit my phone's screen, so it didn't seem to even feature responsive design; maybe ok for the hospital software they designed it for but not something for creating applications that the people will use out of their own volition.
I'm pessimistic that "there is no alternative" but seeing how nicely #FDroid is coming along, I'm hoping that I may be wrong. Is there anything promising out there in the #mobile#gui#foss space?
I have used manjaro in the past and for the reasons outlined in all the previous remarks and which I could not recover and fix 3x. I switched to openSUSE and didn't look back. I wondered why I didn't use openSUSE much sooner. it's solid, it's fast, it's reliable, it uses #btrfs filesystem, and has rollback feature as my insurance.
I didn't get that with manjaro. everytime I did update with manjaro after the 1st screwup, and reimaged the second time, I was nervous like walking on egg shells. as a user, I shouldn't have to feel that way. I gave manjaro 3 chances, after the 3rd screw up. I had enough. Manjaro was too complicated for me to troubleshoot, I'm just a novice user. So I went for a robust distro that was simple to use. I switched to openSUSE #Tumbleweed rolling release.
When using openSUSE, I don't feel that way. i feel super relaxed about the routine #openSUSE updates. after 4 yrs running openSUSE Tumbleweed, not 1 single incident issue. that's what I call reliable and stressful #Linux distro. For me its simple because it has #yast, the command and control #GUI#management console. I don't need to know #CLI to admin my OS. I have yast. easy peasy.
@thor
Now now. Let's not paint everybody with the same brush stroke. I happen to like Kubuntu, and so far Krusader has been excellent, as has the rest of KDE.
I also haven't had any problems with Thunar, but maybe that's because I don't use Xfce very often.
Calling Linux GUI's unreliable is as disingenuous as saying that air travel is unsafe because, once, there was a plane that crashed. #GUI
@thor
I, too, feel comfortable getting a Windows system up and running quickly to where I can use it efficiently, but only because I'm forced to upgrade laptops every two years at work, and I've gotten used to it. I must install auto hotkey, and disable automatic update for Firefox, and I still continue to rail at Microsoft: who the #@!& gave you permission to update my computer every month?
So there are specific cases where I feel comfortable, and one of them happens to be Windows.
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